UNSPSC 50307027: Quenepas

The type of fruit known as quenepas

UNSPSC 50307027 Quenepas (Commodity) represents a narrow, specialized produce category that state and local governments procure primarily through school nutrition programs and child care food service operations. Recent solicitations show this code applied almost exclusively to fresh produce procurement for K–12 school districts, early childhood centers, and senior services, where quenepas (also called Spanish limes) appear as line items within broader fresh-produce or specialty-fruit contracts rather than as standalone procurement vehicles. The code surfaces in institutional food service contexts—particularly those serving USDA Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) requirements and National School Lunch Program participants—where vendors bid competitively on multi-item produce schedules that bundle common fruits and vegetables with specialty or seasonal items. Issuing bodies are predominantly school districts (elementary through secondary), supplemented by Head Start programs, school nutrition cooperatives, and municipal senior services departments. The procurement mix skews heavily toward Georgia and Texas school systems, with secondary activity in Florida, Connecticut, Wisconsin, Mississippi, and other states. No recent opportunities explicitly feature quenepas as a sole line item; the code appears embedded within larger produce RFPs and IFBs that cite 40–200+ produce line items spanning apples, bananas, carrots, lettuce, berries, and specialty fruits, where quenepas would occupy a minor fractional share of total volume and spend.

The City of Edinburg, Texas, posted RFP 2026-017 on July 16, 2026 (due August 4) for a CACFP meal program serving 400 children daily, with five supply categories including fresh fruits priced competitively across 20 delivery days per month for nine months under a local-vendor preference. Madison Metropolitan School District (Wisconsin) issued RFB 4162 on July 8, 2026 (due July 29) for petite bananas alone—a single specialty-fruit line—at an estimated $78,000 annual value, indicating that even highly specific fruit requests command meaningful institutional spend when standardized to school-volume delivery requirements. The GEC Buying Cooperative procurement (February 4, 2026; due March 4) bundled 72 produce line items across 30 Georgia school districts with $5.5 million combined annual spend, illustrating the scale and multi-vendor structure typical of regional school nutrition cooperatives. Geographic concentration remains heaviest in Georgia (multiple school districts posting fresh-produce bids through March–June 2026) and Texas (McAllen ISD, Edinburg, Austin ISD), with scattered activity in Florida, Connecticut, Oregon, California, and the Midwest. Quenepas procurement volume and frequency remain low relative to staple fruits; pursuit viability hinges on vendor capacity to supply specialty tropical fruit as part of a broader produce schedule at competitive pricing within CACFP and NSLP compliance frameworks.