UNSPSC 50305443: Ruby red pears

The variety of pears known as ruby red pears

UNSPSC 50305443 Ruby red pears is a Commodity code that sees minimal relevant recent activity in state and local school nutrition and institutional food service procurement. The code's nominal scope—a specific pear variety—does not align with the broad, category-based fresh-produce solicitations that dominate current state and local contracting under related family-level codes. Recent opportunities from school districts, county boards of education, and municipal agencies across Texas, Georgia, Florida, Connecticut, California, and Oregon are soliciting general fresh produce line items (apples, bananas, carrots, lettuce, tomatoes, berries) and in some cases specifically requesting multiple produce varieties rather than sourcing a single fruit type. When pears appear in recent solicitations, they are listed as one commodity among 40 to 70 line items in broader fresh-produce bids—for example, Hancock County Schools (Georgia) and Bulloch County School District (Georgia) both included pears in multi-item RFPs and IFBs, but neither solicitation was coded or issued specifically for ruby red pears or any pear variety in isolation.

School districts, county boards of education, and state cooperative purchasing groups (such as the GEC Buying Cooperative serving 30 Georgia districts) dominate issuing bodies under nearby fresh-produce codes, with McAllen Independent School District (Texas), Austin Independent School District (Texas), Madison Metropolitan School District (Wisconsin), Meriden Public Schools (Connecticut), and multiple Georgia school nutrition programs posting solicitations in the past four months. Hillsborough County Public Schools (Tampa, Florida) issued an RFP for fresh specialty fruits and vegetables under the USDA Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program with a cost-plus fixed-fee structure and estimated annual budget of $600,000; the City of Bridgeport (Connecticut) solicited over 1,100 grocery items including produce; and DeSoto County School District (Mississippi) sought fresh produce distribution for 41 school sites on a bi-annual cost-plus-fee model. The source contains no posted opportunities coded to or explicitly requesting ruby red pears as a primary or standalone procurement line item. Unless you hold specific intelligence about a client's need to source a particular pear variety for institutional feeding programs, the code signals limited near-term procurement velocity. Pursue only if you have a confirmed buyer inquiry or a supply agreement with a school district or food service operator known to specify this commodity.