UNSPSC 50343626: Frozen marsanne grapes

The variety of wine grapes known as marsanne grapes that have been frozen for preservation.

UNSPSC 50343626 Frozen marsanne grapes (Commodity) does not support meaningful recent state and local procurement activity. The code appears in the recent-opportunities block as a technical tag on a Texas Health and Human Services Commission IFB for hospital groceries (HHS0017660, due July 27, 2026), but that solicitation requests broad grocery and food service supplies spanning proteins, prepared foods, dairy, beverages, and packaging materials—not grapes or produce in particular. The mismatch between the code's narrow scope and the actual buying suggests the frozen marsanne grapes code is either a miscataloged tagging artifact or used only for specialized sourcing outside typical state and local procurement channels.

State and local procurement in food service operates primarily through broader commodity codes. The recent activity shows school districts, state health agencies, and county governments soliciting groceries, fresh produce, frozen foods, and meal-service supplies through competitive IFBs and RFPs—but without meaningful representation of commodity-level precision in frozen-grape specifications. Georgia school systems (Douglas County, Henry County, Hancock County, Decatur, Bulloch County, Savannah-Chatham, Fulton County, Early County), Texas HHSC facilities, Florida school districts, Connecticut municipalities, and specialized programs like Head Start and the USDA Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program dominate the recent-opportunities block, and they procure fresh and frozen produce by bulk category, not by varietal. Pursuing this code is not strategically viable; vendors in fresh or frozen fruit should track broader produce codes (such as frozen vegetables or mixed frozen fruits) and monitor school district and institutional RFPs and IFBs where produce appears alongside other commodity categories rather than stand alone.