UNSPSC 50345416: Frozen early pears

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

UNSPSC 50345416 Frozen early pears, a Commodity code, does not align with the recent state and local procurement activity tagged under it. The source identifies 22 recent opportunities posted between January 2026 and July 2026, none of which solicits frozen early pears specifically. Instead, issuing bodies—primarily school districts, state health agencies, and county governments—are procuring comprehensive food and grocery packages, fresh produce, frozen vegetables and fruits, ice cream, dried fruits and nuts, and institutional food service supplies under this code's tag. The disconnect between the code's narrow product scope and the actual buying pattern suggests either misclassification in state procurement systems or use of this commodity code as a catch-all within broader food-service families.

The issuing-body mix spans K–12 school districts (Hancock County, Savannah-Chatham, Bulloch County, Early County, Decatur, Fulton County, Douglas County, Henry County, Rockwood R-VI, and Hillsborough County), state health agencies (Texas Health and Human Services Commission), county governments (Douglas County, Santa Clara County), and specialized programs (Head Start of Greater Dallas). School districts dominate the recent activity, with food-service procurement driven by National School Lunch Program and School Breakfast Program compliance requirements. Geographic concentration is heaviest in Georgia and Texas; secondary activity appears in Florida, Missouri, California, Oregon, Connecticut, New Jersey, and Colorado. 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), the City of Bridgeport's IFB for school nutrition grocery items spanning over 1,100 line items (response due June 30, 2026), the Hancock County Board of Education's fresh-produce IFB for the 2026–27 school year (response due June 26, 2026), Head Start of Greater Dallas's IFB 26-GP for 32,409 cases of frozen foods and produce at an estimated value of $969,460.94 (response due June 24, 2026), and the Douglas County School System's RFP SN 26-003 for food-supply and distribution services at an estimated annual expenditure of $9,000,000 (response due February 18, 2026). Activity under this code does not represent frozen early pears as a procurement category and warrants reconsideration of how the commodity is classified in state and local procurement taxonomies.