UNSPSC 50344622: Frozen ida pride melons

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

UNSPSC 50344622 Frozen ida pride melons is a Commodity code that does not reflect the recent state and local procurement activity tagged under it. The recent opportunities solicited under this code span comprehensive grocery and food service procurement across school nutrition programs, state institutions, and correctional facilities — encompassing frozen produce, fresh fruits and vegetables, meats, dairy, breads, pantry staples, and food service supplies — rather than a single specialty melon product line. Issuing bodies include state health and human services departments (Texas HHS Commission, New Jersey Department of Human Services), county boards of education (Hancock County Georgia, Early County Georgia, Bulloch County Georgia, Henry County Georgia, Savannah-Chatham County Georgia, Douglas County Georgia, Fulton County Georgia), city school districts (City Schools of Decatur Georgia, Bridgeport Connecticut, Rockwood Missouri), specialized school nutrition programs (Hillsborough County Florida Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program, Head Start of Greater Dallas), county sheriffs' departments (Santa Clara County California), and state corrections (Oregon Department of Corrections). The code shows no meaningful recent activity aligned to its nominal scope of a specific frozen melon variety; instead, it has been tagged to large, multi-category food service contracts where melons may appear as one line item among hundreds.

Geographic concentration is strongest in Georgia (Hancock, Early, Bulloch, Henry, Savannah-Chatham, Douglas, Fulton counties, plus City Schools of Decatur and Bridgeport), with secondary activity in Texas (HHS statewide procurements and Head Start of Greater Dallas), Florida (Hillsborough County), Missouri (Rockwood), Connecticut (Bridgeport), California (Santa Clara County), Oregon (state corrections), and New Jersey (state nutrition assistance programs). Representative recent opportunities include the Texas HHS Commission's IFB HHS0017660 for FY27 groceries at Big Spring State Hospital (due July 27, 2026), covering approximately 110 line items across proteins, dairy, beverages, and packaged goods with a prior-year baseline of $32,226.36; the Bridgeport Board of Education's IFB BNB052266 for over 1,100 grocery line items supporting the National School Lunch Program (due June 30, 2026); and the Douglas County School System's RFP 26-003 for food supply and distribution services across 32 schools serving 25,500 students (due February 18, 2026), with an estimated annual expenditure of approximately $9,000,000. The mismatch between code scope and actual procurement activity signals that this commodity code is either misapplied by issuing bodies or functionally obsolete for state and local buying patterns in frozen produce procurement.