UNSPSC 50307025: Plantains

The type of fruit known as plantains

UNSPSC 50307025 Plantains, a Commodity code, captures state and local procurement of fresh fruit—particularly plantains and related produce—for institutional food service operations including correctional facilities, school nutrition programs, senior services, health care centers, and parks departments. Recent solicitations emphasize delivery of fresh, quality produce meeting USDA standards, health department compliance, and often include specifications for ripeness stages, packaging, temperature control, and traceability. The issuing bodies span state corrections departments, school districts, county boards of education, municipal parks authorities, health care coalitions, and social-service agencies. Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Illinois Department of Corrections, and multiple Georgia school districts are repeat buyers under this code over the past four months.

Activity clusters in Texas and Georgia, with secondary opportunities in Illinois, Wisconsin, Florida, Connecticut, and Mississippi. Representative recent solicitations include the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's procurement for fresh fruit and vegetables to multiple food warehouses serving correctional facilities (IW267376, IW267420, IW267411; response dates October 14–19, 2026), Collier County Board of County Commissioners' Invitation to Negotiate for food services at North Collier Regional Park (response March 6, 2025, with 10-point local-vendor preference), Madison Metropolitan School District's bids for petite bananas (RFB 4162; response July 29, 2026; estimated annual value $78,000) and fresh fruit and vegetable snacks (RFB 4163; response July 29, 2026; Wisconsin-sourced within 400 miles with 5% diverse-vendor preference), and Dougherty County Board of Education's sealed-bid procurement for 40 fresh-produce line items serving 24 school nutrition sites (response June 16, 2026). School districts frequently impose Buy American requirements, prevailing-wage compliance, and insurance minimums ($500,000–$2 million general liability). Set-asides and preferences vary by jurisdiction—small-business set-asides appear in Illinois and Texas corrections procurements, while local-vendor and diverse-business preferences are standard in school and municipal buys.