UNSPSC 50305851: Marked black plums

The variety of plums known as marked black plums

UNSPSC 50305851 Marked black plums is a Commodity code that, based on the available source material, shows minimal recent state and local procurement activity directly aligned with the code's nominal scope. The single recent opportunity explicitly tagged to this code—a City of Edinburg, Texas child care food program RFP posted July 16, 2026—lists plums only as one item within a much broader fresh produce and food supply basket spanning beverages, paper goods, proteins, janitorial supplies, and nonfood items. The city is seeking suppliers for its Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) serving approximately 400 children daily under RFP 2026-017, with bids due August 4, 2026 at 3:00 PM, and Texas Local Government Code Section 271.9051 applies a 5% local-vendor preference to bidders within Edinburg whose bids fall within 5% of the lowest price. The remaining opportunities in the dataset—including Madison Metropolitan School District's bids for petite bananas and fresh fruit and vegetable snacks, Bridgeport's grocery items procurement, and numerous school nutrition programs across Georgia, Texas, Connecticut, Florida, and Oregon—are tagged to produce-category codes but show no evidence of marked black plums as line items or discrete procurement targets. State and local governments buying under this code segment food procurement across school districts, municipal child care agencies, and institutional food services, but recent solicitations emphasize broader produce categories, specific varieties (bananas, apples, berries, cruciferous vegetables), and packaged goods rather than marked black plums as a standalone or priority commodity.

Activity under the code is concentrated in school nutrition programs and federally funded meal initiatives across Georgia, Texas, and Florida, where district food service departments conduct routine annual or multi-year fresh produce and food supply contracts. The issuing bodies are predominantly school districts (Madison Metropolitan, Bulloch County, Dougherty County, Liberty County, Savannah-Chatham, Muscogee County, Bryan County, Glynn County, Henry County, Hancock County, Early County, DeSoto County, Bartow County, McAllen Independent, Hillsborough County, Austin Independent School District, Central Point School District, Meriden Public Schools, and cooperatives serving multiple districts), municipal or county child care and nutrition programs (City of Edinburg, City of Bridgeport's Board of Education, San Antonio Senior Services), and regional food cooperatives (GEC Buying Cooperative spanning 30 Georgia districts). No recent solicitations in the dataset name marked black plums as a standalone line item, specification, or competitive focus. The code's modest activity and lack of granular black-plum-specific opportunities suggest either very limited institutional demand for this particular produce variety or categorical tagging misalignment between the code and actual procurement practice.