UNSPSC 50344619: Frozen hami melons

The variety of melons known as hami melons that have been frozen for preservation.

UNSPSC 50344619 Frozen hami melons, a Commodity code, does not align with the state and local procurement activity currently tagged to it. Recent opportunities solicited under this code span broad-category grocery procurement for institutional food service—state hospitals, supported living centers, school districts, and detention facilities—rather than frozen melon products specifically. The Texas Health and Human Services Commission, school boards across Georgia, Missouri, Connecticut, and California counties, and the Oregon Department of Corrections are posting IFBs and RFPs for comprehensive food service contracts that include hundreds of line items across proteins, produce, dairy, frozen goods, and supplies; frozen melons, if procured at all, appear as one among dozens of frozen-vegetable or frozen-fruit commodity lines, not as a standalone product category or contract focus. The issuing bodies are predominantly institutional nutrition programs within state health-and-human-services agencies and public school districts, with occasional procurement from county correctional facilities and early childhood care networks.

Activity concentrates in the Southeast—Texas, Georgia, and surrounding states—with secondary activity in the Upper Midwest and Pacific regions. Representative recent solicitations include the Texas Health and Human Services Commission's IFB HHS0017660 for groceries at Big Spring State Hospital (response due July 27, 2026), covering 110 line items with historical spend of $32,226.36 annually; Hancock County Board of Education's IFB #SN002-2027 for fresh produce including melons and multiple fruit and vegetable varieties (response due June 26, 2026); and Henry County Schools' IFB for food items and products across 52 schools (response due May 5, 2026). The Commodity code shows material procurement activity, but the specificity of "frozen hami melons" is not supported by recent solicitation language, which consistently treats frozen produce as one component within multi-category food service agreements rather than as a discrete procurement line.