UNSPSC 50305428: Limonera pears

The variety of pears known as limonera pears

UNSPSC 50305428 Limonera pears, a Commodity code, sees active state and local procurement focused on fresh produce supply and delivery to institutional foodservice operations—prisons, schools, senior centers, mental health facilities, and child care programs. The code's recent activity reflects sourcing of fresh fruits and vegetables as part of broader institutional meal provisioning rather than pears as a standalone line item; solicitations consistently treat fresh produce as a bundled commodity family with individual fruit and vegetable specifications embedded in larger supply contracts. Issuing bodies span Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) prison food warehouses, multiple Georgia school districts (Bryan County, Hancock County, Dougherty County, Early County, Bartow County), Illinois Department of Corrections and Department of Mental Health, Texas school districts and child care programs, Collier County (Florida) Parks and Recreation, Madison Metropolitan School District (Wisconsin), and special-purpose entities such as Head Start of Greater Dallas and Marion Health Care Coalition. The mix skews toward school nutrition programs and state correctional or mental health facilities, with school districts representing the largest share of visible opportunities.

The geographic footprint spans Texas, Georgia, Illinois, Florida, Wisconsin, Mississippi, Connecticut, and California, with Georgia and Texas showing the highest concentration of recent solicitation activity. Representative recent opportunities include the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's fresh fruit and vegetable supply for its Snyder and Wynne food warehouses (solicitations IW267420 and IW267411, due October 14, 2026); Illinois Department of Corrections' fresh produce bid for Joliet Treatment Center (solicitation 27426DOCJOLIEB53849, due September 3, 2026, with small business set-aside); Madison Metropolitan School District's petite bananas RFB and fresh fruit and vegetable snacks RFB (RFB 4162 and 4163, due July 29, 2026, with local and diverse-owned business preferences); Hancock County Board of Education's fresh produce IFB for 2026–27 (IFB #SN002-2027, due June 26, 2026); and Bartow County School System's request for local fresh fruits and vegetables sourced within 400 miles (RFP 10-2026-019, due June 22, 2026). Buy American and domestic-sourcing mandates are standard across school district and state institutional procurements; many school districts apply local-vendor or geographic-preference scoring, and small business set-asides appear in state agency food service contracting.