UNSPSC 50307019: Lychee

The type of fruit known as lychee

UNSPSC 50307019 Lychee is a Commodity code that captures fresh produce supply to state and local institutional food-service operations, though lychee itself appears rarely in recent solicitations — the actual buying centers on bananas, apples, berries, root vegetables, leafy greens, and mixed fresh fruit and vegetable bundles delivered to correctional facilities, schools, senior centers, mental health treatment centers, and child-care programs. State and local issuing bodies span Texas Department of Criminal Justice (multiple facility food warehouses), Illinois Department of Corrections and Department of Mental Health, school districts (Madison Metropolitan, DeSoto County, Hancock County, Dougherty County, Bryan County, Bartow County, Early County), counties (Collier County), cities (San Antonio, Bridgeport, Edinburg), and nonprofit operators (Head Start of Greater Dallas, Marion Health Care Coalition). Most solicitations are RFBs or ITNs with response dates between May and October 2026; a handful specify contract values or anticipated spend, such as Madison Metropolitan School District's $78,000 annual projection for petite bananas and Head Start of Greater Dallas's $969,460.94 total estimated procurement value for frozen foods, produce, and meat. Recent activity concentrates in Texas and Georgia — with secondary solicitations in Illinois, Connecticut, Wisconsin, and Mississippi — reflecting school-nutrition procurement cycles aligned to fiscal and academic years.

Representative recent opportunities include the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's fresh fruit and vegetable solicitations for the Palestine and Snyder food warehouses (IW267376 and IW267420, due October 2026), which offer narrow scope and compressed timelines typical of mid-cycle commodity replenishment; Collier County Board of County Commissioners' Invitation to Negotiate for food services at North Collier Regional Park (ITN 258360, due March 2025, with local-vendor preference worth 10 evaluation points and a three-year term with two optional one-year renewals); Madison Metropolitan School District's RFB for petite bananas (RFB 4162, due July 2026, $78,000 annual value, with 40% weight on cost and mandatory 98% fill rate and HACCP plan requirements); and Bartow County School System's RFP for local fresh fruits and vegetables sourced within 400 miles (RFP 10-2026-019, due June 2026, emphasizing seasonal variety and cost at 30 points of 100-point evaluation). Buy American provisions, prevailing-wage compliance, HACCP certification, and delivery-time windows (typically 5:00 to 7:00 a.m. for schools, 6:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. for DeSoto County) appear consistently; insurance minimums range from $500,000 to $1 million general liability depending on contract scale. Few solicitations name award values or incumbent vendors in available documentation, limiting competitive-intelligence depth.