UNSPSC 50305904: Nana pommegranates

The variety of pommegranates known as nana pommegranates

UNSPSC 50305904 Nana pommegranates, a Commodity code, represents fresh produce categories that state and local governments procure for school nutrition programs, child care facilities, senior services, and correctional food operations. Recent solicitations show school districts dominating the buyer base, with activity spanning Georgia, Texas, Florida, Connecticut, Oregon, and California jurisdictions. While the code's nominal descriptor references a specific fruit variety, actual procurement activity reflects a far broader spectrum: state and local buyers are souriting fresh produce across multiple fruit and vegetable categories, dried fruits and nuts, processed produce items, and ancillary food service supplies—often bundled with nonperishable groceries, paper goods, janitorial supplies, and kitchen equipment in single comprehensive food-service contracts.

School districts and county education boards account for the majority of recent opportunities, with individual procurements ranging from single-product awards (Madison Metropolitan School District's petite banana RFB 4162 with $78,000 annual value and 70–90 weekly cases) to large multi-category food-service contracts (Meriden Public Schools' $3.1 million grocery and produce RFP 026-41 covering 8,200 students across 13 sites, and the GEC Buying Cooperative's multi-district fresh produce RFP spanning $5.5 million across 30 Georgia school districts). Non-school entities include Head Start of Greater Dallas ($969,460.94 estimated value for frozen and fresh products), city senior services (San Antonio's produce-market RFP for 12 comprehensive and 3 part-time senior centers), child care food programs (City of Edinburg CACFP RFP 2026-017 with local-vendor preference under Texas law), and correctional food operations (Santa Clara County's dried fruits and nuts ITB for detention facility food service). Geographic activity concentrates in Georgia (Liberty, Muscogee, Savannah-Chatham, Bulloch, Bryan, Dougherty, Hancock, Bartow, Early, Glynn, and Henry County school systems issued at least 13 separate fresh produce or food procurements between March and June 2026), with significant concurrent activity in Texas (McAllen ISD RFP 2026-1029, Austin ISD RFP 26RFP034, Edinburg CACFP, Head Start of Greater Dallas), Florida (Hillsborough County Public Schools FFVP RFP 26039RFPDST), Connecticut (Meriden Public Schools), Oregon (Central Point School District), and California (Santa Clara County). Evaluation criteria consistently emphasize cost (typically 30–50 percent weight), vendor qualifications and experience (15–25 percent), product quality and compliance (10–25 percent), and delivery and service capability (15–25 percent); Buy American provisions requiring minimum domestic content (51 percent for processed items, maximum extent practicable for fresh) appear in nearly all K–12 procurements; and HACCP plans, food safety certifications, and product recall procedures are standard requirements. Contract terms typically run 12 months with options for one to four additional one-year renewals, and award often proceeds to the lowest responsive and responsible bidder or multiple vendors on a line-item basis. No set-aside designations (SBE, MBE, WBE, DBE) are explicitly identified in the recent-opportunities block, though some solicitations encourage small and minority-owned business participation as an affirmative contracting preference aligned with federal funding requirements.