UNSPSC 50307000: Nominant fruits

Fruit types that belong to no other class and have no other fruit commodities related to them

UNSPSC 50307000 Nominant fruits, a Class code, encompasses fresh produce items—chiefly fruits and vegetables—that state and local governments buy for school nutrition programs, child care facilities, senior services, and corrections food service. Recent solicitations show school districts and special-purpose nutrition programs as the dominant buyers, with fresh-produce procurement spanning apples, bananas, berries, leafy greens, root vegetables, and specialty items delivered on weekly or bi-weekly schedules to individual school sites. State and local nutrition programs emphasize USDA Buy American compliance, HACCP plans with 24/7 recall accessibility, specific ripeness and temperature standards, and alignment with federal meal-program regulations (Child and Adult Care Food Program, Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program, National School Lunch Program). Issuing bodies include school districts (elementary through high school), county boards of education, cooperative purchasing consortiums, city departments of human services managing senior nutrition, child care networks, and correctional facilities. The buyer base spans Georgia and other states with school nutrition as the dominant use case, though municipal senior-services and county-jail food programs also purchase under this code. Buying patterns show single-vendor and multi-vendor awards, with price typically weighted at 30–50 percent of evaluation and product quality, delivery reliability, and local-sourcing preferences making up the remainder.

Recent opportunities reflect sustained demand across multiple regions. The Madison Metropolitan School District (Wisconsin) issued RFB 4162 for petite bananas with an estimated annual contract value of $78,000, due July 29, 2026, specifying 150-count case packs and strict ripeness stages (5" to 5.5" length, color stages 3.5–4.5 per Chiquita standards) with 98 percent minimum fill rates and comparable substitutes within 24 hours. The City of Edinburg, Texas, solicited CACFP meal-program supplies under RFP 2026-017 due August 4, 2026, spanning beverages, paper goods, food products, and janitorial items serving 400 children daily with local-vendor preference under Texas statute. Hillsborough County Public Schools (Florida) issued RFP 26RFP034 for fresh produce to 18 elementary schools participating in the USDA Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program, due March 11, 2026, with an estimated budget of $600,000 and cost-plus fixed-fee-per-case pricing. The GEC Buying Cooperative, representing 30 Georgia school districts across two geographic areas, issued RFP SN 26-004 due March 4, 2026, covering approximately 72 produce line items with estimated annual spending of $4.4 million (Area One) and $1.1 million (Area Two). Activity is heaviest in Georgia (multiple IFBs and RFPs from school districts including Bulloch, Bryan, Glynn, Hancock, Dougherty, and Liberty Counties) and extends to Texas, Wisconsin, Florida, Connecticut, Utah, Oregon, and California. Cooperative-purchasing vehicles are gaining use, particularly among Georgia school nutrition programs. Most recent opportunities carry early or mid-2026 response deadlines, indicating active procurement cycles aligned with fiscal-year planning and back-to-school supply chains.