UNSPSC 50342004: Frozen cherokee blackberries

The variety of blackberries known as cherokee blackberries that have been frozen for preservation.

UNSPSC 50342004 Frozen cherokee blackberries is a Commodity code that captures frozen berry products purchased by state and local institutions for food service, nutrition assistance, and institutional feeding programs. The recent opportunities in the dataset show state and local procurement bodies buying frozen produce—berries, vegetables, and mixed fruit products—as components of larger institutional grocery and food-service contracts rather than as standalone, commodity-specific line items. The code sits within a broader family of frozen produce procurement that state agencies, school districts, and county entities use to stock cafeterias, senior centers, state hospitals, and nutrition-assistance distribution programs. Purchasing patterns reflect a mix of commodity grocery buys from state human services and correctional departments alongside school-district nutrition contracts under the National School Lunch Program and other federally supported child and adult feeding initiatives. Issuing bodies include the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (multiple large institutional grocery solicitations), state departments of corrections and education, county boards of education, school districts, and county senior services departments.

Geographic activity concentrates in Texas, Georgia, Oregon, Connecticut, New Jersey, and Florida, with Texas showing the heaviest recent procurement volume—the HHSC alone issued multiple overlapping institutional-grocery IFBs between May and August 2026 covering frozen food products across state hospitals and supported living centers. Representative recent opportunities include the Texas HHS Commission's IFB HHS0017338V1 (posted July 17, 2026, due August 18, 2026) for 106 line items of frozen food products including baked goods, proteins, vegetables, and juices to supply state hospitals and supported living centers statewide, with estimated annual volume of $9 million; the Oregon Department of Corrections' IFB S2910000017684 (posted August 5, 2026, due August 19, 2026) for 40,000 pounds of frozen sliced or diced apples with a 5% Oregon-goods preference and 5% resident-bidder preference; and Hancock County Board of Education's IFB SN002-2027 (posted June 10, 2026, due June 26, 2026) for fresh and frozen produce spanning over 200 line items under Buy American provisions requiring 51 percent domestic agricultural content. Frozen-berry solicitations appear embedded within these larger commodity grocery awards rather than as standalone Commodity-code opportunities.