UNSPSC 50345430: Frozen mountain bartlett pears

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

UNSPSC 50345430 Frozen mountain bartlett pears (Commodity) represents a niche food product within state and local procurement that sees limited direct solicitation under this specific code. Recent opportunities show frozen fruit and specialty produce are procured primarily by state institutional facilities, school districts, and county detention operations, but the recent-opportunities block contains no solicitations explicitly tagged to frozen mountain bartlett pears alone. State and local governments purchasing frozen produce do so as line items within broader grocery, food service, or commodity food solicitations rather than as standalone pear procurements. When frozen specialty fruits appear in state and local RFPs, they are bundled with mixed frozen berries, tropical fruit blends, and other frozen items as part of institutional food service or school nutrition contracts. The issuing bodies soliciting frozen fruit products span state health and human services departments (particularly for state hospital and state-supported living center food service), county and municipal school districts, county correctional facilities, and Head Start child care programs. These agencies typically consolidate frozen fruit purchases with broader food service categories including frozen vegetables, prepared foods, proteins, and staple grocery items rather than procuring frozen pears as a distinct line item.

Geographic activity centers on Texas (particularly the Texas Health and Human Services Commission procuring for multiple state facilities), Georgia (school districts including Douglas County, Henry County, Savannah-Chatham, and Fulton County), and scattered activity across California, Florida, Connecticut, Missouri, and the Pacific Northwest. The representative opportunities in the block show frozen fruit and mixed produce as components of much larger institutional food contracts—for example, the Texas HHSC El Paso State Supported Living Center procurement (HHS0017449, IFB, due July 13, 2026) encompasses food and consumable products across 1.5 million dollars in annual historical spend; the Head Start of Greater Dallas dried and frozen foods solicitation (IFB 26-GP, due June 24, 2026) totals 969,460.94 dollars across all frozen products and produce; and the Santa Clara County correctional facility dried fruits and nuts ITB (ITB-PRC-FY26-0617, due February 5, 2026) sought dried tropical fruit blends as one of five line items on an all-or-none basis. No recent solicitation in the block names frozen mountain bartlett pears as a standalone commodity, suggesting this code either carries minimal procurement activity or is tagged inconsistently with actual buying behavior. Vendors pursuing this segment should monitor institutional food service contracts from state corrections, health services, and education buyers rather than expect dedicated frozen-pear RFPs.