UNSPSC 50307019: Lychee

The type of fruit known as lychee

UNSPSC 50307019 Lychee is a Commodity code for a single fresh fruit product that state and local governments purchase as part of broader child nutrition, school meal, and institutional food service programs. Recent state and local solicitations show that lychee is not being procured as a standalone commodity; instead, lychee appears to be incidentally referenced or miscoded within much larger produce and grocery procurement frameworks. The code does not align with current activity — the 24 recent opportunities in the source block solicit fresh produce categories (apples, bananas, berries, broccoli, carrots, lettuce, oranges, potatoes, strawberries, tomatoes, and numerous other staples), comprehensive grocery and food-service supplies for school nutrition programs, or produce for child care food programs and senior services, but lychee is not explicitly named as a line item or specification in any of them. State and local nutrition programs — including school districts, boards of education, child care food program operators, and senior services divisions — are the primary buyers, and procurement is concentrated among Georgia school districts (Bulloch County, Bryan County, Dougherty County, Glynn County, Liberty County, Muscogee County, Savannah-Chatham County, and others), Texas school districts and child nutrition authorities (McAllen Independent School District, Austin Independent School District, Edinburg City Schools, Head Start of Greater Dallas), and smaller numbers of Florida, Connecticut, Mississippi, Oregon, and California jurisdictions.

The procurement pattern shows no material demand for lychee specifically. Recent solicitations focus on year-round staple produce with high consumption volume and long shelf life — bananas, apples, carrots, potatoes, and tomatoes dominate estimated annual quantities and pricing discussions. Madison Metropolitan School District issued an RFB on July 8, 2026, for 70–90 cases weekly of petite bananas at an estimated annual value of $78,000. Hillsborough County Public Schools in Florida issued an RFP on February 11, 2026, for fresh fruit and vegetable program delivery to 18 elementary schools, estimated at $600,000 annually, with emphasis on raw, pre-cut specialty fruits and vegetables. A 30-district Georgia cooperative buying group (GEC Buying Cooperative, solicited by Douglas County School System on February 4, 2026) projected $5.5 million in combined annual fresh produce and eggs spending across two areas, with no mention of specialty tropical fruits. Lychee — a highly seasonal, perishable, regionally constrained specialty fruit — does not appear in any specification document, estimated quantity table, or award announcement in the recent-opportunities block. The code sees no meaningful recent procurement activity, and the mismatch between the commodity name and the actual solicitations suggests either miscoding or very limited institutional demand.