UNSPSC 50305445: Seckel pears

The variety of pears known as seckel pears

UNSPSC 50305445 Seckel pears (Commodity) represents a narrow product line within fresh produce procurement, but state and local purchasing activity under this specific code is sparse. Recent solicitations tagged to this code predominantly procure broader fresh fruit and vegetable baskets rather than seckel pears as a line item. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice has posted multiple RFPs for fresh fruit and vegetables to supply food warehouses and institutional facilities, and the Illinois Department of Corrections solicited fresh produce delivery to treatment centers, yet these opportunities do not isolate seckel pears from the wider produce mix. School districts, county human services departments, and senior centers similarly aggregate produce procurement across dozens of line items—apples, bananas, lettuce, tomatoes, onions, and other staples dominate recent bid documents. When produce is itemized, seckel pears do not appear; the fruit procurement focus centers on volume-commodity varieties (Fuji, Gala, and Honeycrisp apples; petite bananas in cases of 150 units; strawberries; and citrus). Institutional food service buyers—correctional facilities, mental health centers, school nutrition programs, and child care providers across Texas, Georgia, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Florida—are actively soliciting fresh produce, but the commodity codes they use tend to capture produce categories rather than specific cultivars.

The issuing bodies span state departments (Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Illinois Department of Corrections and Department of Mental Health), county boards of education (Bartow County, Bryan County, Dougherty County, DeSoto County, Early County, and Hancock County in Georgia; Collier County in Florida), city and municipal agencies (City of San Antonio, City of Bridgeport, City of Edinburg), school districts (Madison Metropolitan School District, Bridgeport Board of Education), and specialized procurement bodies (Head Start of Greater Dallas, Marion Health Care Coalition). Most activity clusters in Georgia school-nutrition procurement and Texas institutional food service. No recent solicitations explicitly specify seckel pears as a standalone line item or required variety, suggesting either that the code may be mislabeled in procurement systems or that seckel pears are purchased through broader produce-family codes rather than a commodity-specific requisition.