UNSPSC 50345407: Frozen beurre pears

The variety of pears known as beurre pears that have been frozen for preservation.

UNSPSC 50345407 Frozen beurre pears is a Commodity code that sees little relevant recent activity. State and local procurement offices post solicitations tagged with this code, but the actual purchases are generic frozen fruit, grocery items, and food service supplies for institutional cafeterias, school nutrition programs, child care facilities, and correctional institutions. The recent opportunities show a systematic mismatch: the code nominally specifies a single product line (frozen Bosc pears), yet the solicitations themselves request comprehensive food and produce procurement spanning dozens or hundreds of line items—frozen vegetables, berries, fresh produce, dairy, proteins, condiments, and supplies—where frozen pears appear, if at all, as a minor commodity buried in a much larger scope.

Issuing bodies span school districts (Rockwood R-VI, Savannah-Chatham, Henry County, Bulloch County, Douglas County, Early County, Fulton County, Hancock County, Bridgeport Board of Education, Decatur City Schools, Hillsborough County), state departments (Texas Health and Human Services Commission for state hospitals and supported living centers, Oregon Department of Corrections, Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice or comparable agencies), county governments (Santa Clara County Corrections, Fulton County Schools), and specialized programs (Head Start of Greater Dallas). Texas HHSC and school districts in Georgia and Missouri appear most frequently. Geographic activity concentrates in Texas, Georgia, and Missouri, with secondary activity in California, Connecticut, Florida, Oregon, New Jersey, and elsewhere. Representative recent opportunities include the Texas Health and Human Services Commission's IFB HHS0017660 for FY27 groceries for Big Spring State Hospital (bids due July 27, 2026), the City of Bridgeport's IFB for grocery items supporting the Board of Education's Food & Nutrition Services (due June 30, 2026), Head Start of Greater Dallas's IFB 26-GP for frozen foods, produce, and meats meeting CACFP requirements for child care serving ages 6 weeks to 5 years (sealed bids due June 24, 2026), and the Douglas County School System's RFP 26-004 through the GEC Buying Cooperative for fresh produce and eggs across 30 school districts in two geographic areas (proposals due March 4, 2026). The code itself does not align cleanly with current procurement practice—buyers use it as a catch-all taxonomy marker for produce-inclusive food service procurement rather than as a meaningful category for a specific frozen pear product. Activity is steady but the commodity specification is essentially unused.