UNSPSC 50307020: Mangosteens

The type of fruit known as mangosteens

UNSPSC 50307020 Mangosteens, a Commodity code, represents a narrow product category within state and local institutional food procurement, though recent solicitation activity shows minimal direct demand for mangosteens themselves. Instead, the code appears in a broader landscape of school district, municipal, and nonprofit food service bidding where fresh produce procurement dominates. The work actually being solicited under fresh produce codes—and the context in which mangosteen codes sit—reflects institutional meal programs serving students, seniors, and incarcerated populations through National School Lunch Program contracts, Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) awards, and municipal food service operations. Issuing bodies span school districts of all sizes (from rural county systems to large urban districts like Austin ISD, Hillsborough County Public Schools, and Meriden Public Schools), municipal purchasing offices (City of Bridgeport, City of San Antonio, County of Santa Clara), Head Start and early-childhood programs, county boards of education, and cooperative purchasing vehicles aggregating demand across 12 to 40 districts. School districts represent the dominant buyer type, with frequent participation from independent school districts, regional cooperatives such as the GEC Buying Cooperative (spanning 30 Georgia districts), and specialized programs like the USDA Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program and Head Start.

Geographic activity concentrates heavily in Georgia, Texas, Florida, and Connecticut, with secondary clusters in Oregon, Mississippi, Wisconsin, and California. Representative recent opportunities include the City of Bridgeport's June 2026 RFP for over 1,100 grocery line items (including fresh produce, proteins, and beverages) with Buy American compliance; the GEC Buying Cooperative's February 2026 RFP for fresh produce and eggs across two geographic areas in Georgia with estimated annual spending of $5.5 million across 30 school districts; Madison Metropolitan School District's July 2026 IFB for petite bananas (70–90 cases weekly, estimated $78,000 annual value) and fresh fruit and vegetable snacks (5,900 weekly servings) with local-sourcing and organic-preference scoring; Hillsborough County Public Schools' April 2026 RFP for specialty fruits and vegetables for the USDA Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program to 18 elementary schools with a $600,000 estimated annual budget; and Austin ISD's February 2026 RFP for fresh produce and beverages under the Good Food Purchasing Program emphasizing local sourcing and supply chain accountability. Most school-based procurements operate on annual fiscal-year cycles (July 1 through June 30) with competitive sealed-bid or RFP structures, firm fixed pricing for initial periods (often 60–90 days post-award), and cost-plus, fixed-fee, or escalator-based pricing models tied to USDA Agricultural Marketing Service or Consumer Price Index benchmarks for subsequent periods.