UNSPSC 50343805: Frozen red huckleberries

The variety of huckleberries known as red huckleberries that have been frozen for preservation.

UNSPSC 50343805 Frozen red huckleberries is a Commodity code that encompasses specialty frozen berries supplied to state and local institutions, primarily school districts, correctional facilities, state hospitals, and child nutrition programs. Recent solicitations show state and local governments procuring frozen berries as line items within comprehensive food-service contracts that span proteins, produce, dairy, and pantry staples rather than as standalone commodity purchases. The code captures single-product specifications within multi-item grocery bids—for example, the Oregon Department of Corrections explicitly solicited one full truckload of unsweetened, individually quick frozen (IQF) berries including blackberries, blueberries, strawberries, and Marion berries in April 2026, and the Texas Health and Human Services Commission's statewide supplemental food procurement for state hospitals and supported living centers includes frozen specialty foods and frozen produce categories that would encompass frozen red huckleberries. Issuing bodies soliciting under this code span state health and human services agencies (Texas HHSC, Oregon DOC), school nutrition programs across multiple school districts and county boards of education (Hancock County, Early County, Bulloch County, Decatur City Schools, and others), Head Start and child care nutrition programs, and county correctional facilities. The geographic concentration appears heaviest in Texas, Georgia, and the Pacific Northwest, with recent activity also in Florida, Missouri, Connecticut, California, and New Jersey.

The Oregon Department of Corrections ITB posted April 9, 2026, with bids due April 23, 2026, sought approximately 40,000 pounds of Grade A or B IQF berries delivered to the Central Distribution Center in Salem, and offered a five percent Oregon-fabrication preference plus an additional five percent Oregon-headquarters preference, with the prior contractor (Pueblo Trading Company) awarded in February 2024 at $0.89 per pound as a pricing benchmark. The Texas HHSC IFB HHS0017660 for Big Spring State Hospital, posted July 13, 2026, with bids due July 27, 2026, included frozen produce among approximately 110 line items under a blanket grocery contract with prior-year spend of $32,226.36; similarly, HHSC's statewide supplemental food procurement HHS0016792 covers frozen foods and specialty items across 23 qualified ordering entities across Texas. Most school nutrition procurements tag frozen berries, mixed fruits, or frozen produce as individual line items within much larger grocery bids (300–1,100+ line items) supporting National School Lunch Program and breakfast program operations, with awards typically going to the lowest responsive bidder on a line-item or vendor-group basis. Frozen-berry activity remains episodic and embedded in institutional food-service aggregations rather than concentrated in standalone specialty-fruit procurement channels.