UNSPSC 50342512: Frozen lapin cherries

The variety of cherries known as lapin cherries that have been frozen for preservation.

UNSPSC 50342512 Frozen lapin cherries is a Commodity code that does not see meaningful recent activity aligned with its nominal scope in state and local procurement. The two opportunities posted under this code in the source—Texas Health and Human Services Commission procurement for hospital groceries (IFB HHS0017660, due July 27, 2026) and Bridgeport Board of Education procurement for school lunch items (IFB BNB052266, due June 30, 2026)—both span broad categories of fresh, frozen, and prepared foods but do not specifically solicit frozen lapin cherries or narrow the scope to specialty frozen fruit. State and local food service buyers do routinely tag commodity-level procurement codes that reflect component product lines rather than actual line-item scope, creating a classification mismatch where the code name does not describe what is actually being purchased.

The issuing bodies buying under this code include health and human services agencies operating state hospitals and residential care facilities, school districts, and county education boards across Texas, Georgia, Connecticut, California, and Missouri. Recent activity shows schools and institutional food service operations procuring hundreds of line items spanning proteins, produce, dairy, pantry staples, and frozen goods in bulk quantities, with contracts valued from $32,000 to $9,000,000 annually depending on the district or facility size. The code sees activity in school nutrition procurement—where contracts typically run July to June annually and require USDA compliance, nutrition standards, and delivery to multiple sites—and in state institutional food service, where Texas Health and Human Services Commission has posted multiple solicitations for hospital and supported living center operations. If your firm supplies specialty frozen fruit, including lapin cherries, to institutional or school food service distributors or directly to end-user kitchens, the relevant opportunities will be tagged at the Family or Class level for frozen or specialty food categories rather than at this specific Commodity code, and you should search actively at the distribution and school-bid level. This code itself presents limited direct pursuit opportunity.