UNSPSC 50316904: Organic oratia red tamarillo

The variety of organic tamarillo known as organic oratia red tamarillo

UNSPSC 50316904 Organic oratia red tamarillo is a Commodity code that nominally designates a specific produce item, but the recent state and local solicitations do not reflect procurement activity for this product. Instead, the opportunities tagged to this code overwhelmingly solicit fresh produce broadly—bananas, apples, berries, vegetables, citrus, melons, and other staples for school nutrition programs. School districts and boards of education are the dominant issuing bodies, with recent RFPs, RFBs, and IFBs from Madison Metropolitan School District, Hancock County Board of Education, Bulloch County School District, Liberty County Board of Education, Savannah-Chatham County Public School System, Glynn County Board of Education, and others across Georgia, Florida, Texas, and Wisconsin seeking weekly or ongoing produce supply contracts. The work being solicited is institutional food service supply: weekly or daily delivery of fresh fruits and vegetables to multiple school sites, typically with specifications for ripeness, shelf life, packaging, temperature control, HACCP documentation, Buy American compliance, and liability insurance. Evaluation typically weights cost at 30–50 percent, with the balance split among vendor qualifications, product quality, local or domestic sourcing preferences, and past performance.

Geographic activity concentrates in Georgia (Hancock, Bulloch, Liberty, Savannah-Chatham, Glynn, Douglas, Muscogee Counties), with additional recent solicitations from Madison, Wisconsin; Austin and McAllen, Texas; and Hillsborough County, Florida. Representative recent opportunities include Madison Metropolitan School District RFB 4162 for petite bananas due July 29, 2026, budgeted at $78,000 annually; Bulloch County School District IFP for 24 produce items grown within 200 miles, with proposals due May 4, 2026; and Douglas County School System's RFP SN 26-004 through the GEC Buying Cooperative for fresh produce and eggs across 30 Georgia school districts, with estimated annual spending of $4.4 million for Area One and $1.1 million for Area Two, proposals due March 4, 2026. The code itself shows little relevant recent activity for organic red tamarillo specifically; the mismatch suggests either miscoding or that this Commodity designation does not reflect current procurement demand in the state and local sector.