UNSPSC 50341614: Frozen earliman apricots

The variety of apricots known as earliman apricots that have been frozen for preservation.

UNSPSC 50341614 Frozen earliman apricots, a Commodity code, describes specialty frozen fruit products that state and local governments procure primarily for institutional food service—schools, hospitals, state supported living centers, and senior services. Recent solicitations show this code sitting within a much broader landscape of frozen and fresh produce procurement, where frozen earliman apricots appear as a line item within larger multi-hundred-item food bids rather than as a standalone purchase category. The code captures a narrow product specification, but state and local food buyers rarely issue solicitations for apricots specifically; instead, they bundle frozen fruits with proteins, vegetables, dairy, and pantry staples in comprehensive food service contracts. Issuing bodies include state health and human services agencies (Texas HHSC and Oregon Department of Corrections), county boards of education, school districts, and state supported living centers. Texas leads activity through HHSC's statewide contracts for state hospitals and supported living centers, followed by school districts and county nutrition programs across Georgia and other states.

Geographic activity clusters in Texas (HHSC procurement for multiple state facilities), Georgia (Gwinnett County, Hancock County Schools, Early County Schools), Florida (Collier County), Oregon (ODOC), Connecticut (Bridgeport schools), New Jersey (state nutrition assistance programs), and other states with active school lunch and institutional feeding programs. Recent representative solicitations include the Texas HHSC IFB HHS0017338 for frozen food products ($9 million estimated annual volume, responses due August 18, 2026) covering 106 frozen line items across state hospitals and supported living centers statewide; Hancock County Board of Education's fresh produce IFB with over 200 line items (bids due June 26, 2026); and Gwinnett County's informal written quote for approximately 1,062 cases of shelf-stable and frozen food items (responses due October 19, 2026). Frozen earliman apricots, when present, compete as one specification among many within these larger consolidated food service contracts; a vendor pursuing the code should expect to quote apricots as part of a broader frozen-fruit or frozen-produce offering, and should monitor school-lunch and institutional-feeding RFQs and IFBs where frozen fruit specifications are named.