UNSPSC 50345457: Frozen warden pears

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

UNSPSC 50345457 Frozen warden pears is a Commodity code that shows little relevant recent activity. The code nominally names a specific frozen fruit product, but the state and local opportunities recently tagged with this code span broad institutional food service procurement — grocery items, fresh produce, frozen foods, and supplies across schools, state hospitals, state supported living centers, and detention facilities. A mismatch exists between the code's narrow product scope and the actual work being solicited: recent RFPs and IFBs under this code are requesting comprehensive food bundles of 100+ line items, not frozen pears specifically. Food service procurement for state and local institutions appears under this code as a matter of administrative classification rather than focused sourcing for frozen pears alone.

State and local agencies soliciting food service under this code include school districts (Bridgeport, Hancock County, Early County, Decatur, Rockwood R-VI, Savannah-Chatham, Henry County, Douglas County, Bulloch County, Fulton County), state health and human services agencies (Texas HHSC for Big Spring State Hospital and El Paso State Supported Living Center), Head Start programs (Head Start of Greater Dallas), county corrections (Santa Clara County Sheriff Department), and special-purpose districts. Texas HHSC appears twice in recent notices (HHS0017660 in July 2026 and HHS0017449 in June 2026), indicating repeat institutional food service contracting. Geographic activity spans Texas (multiple HHSC solicitations), Georgia (Hancock County, Early County, Decatur, Savannah-Chatham, Henry County, Bulloch County, Fulton County, Douglas County), Missouri (Rockwood R-VI), Connecticut (Bridgeport), Florida (Hillsborough County), California (Santa Clara County), Oregon (Department of Corrections), New Jersey (Department of Human Services), and Maine (Hancock County Board of Education). Representative recent opportunities include Texas HHSC's FY27 Groceries for Big Spring State Hospital (IFB HHS0017660, response due July 27, 2026) seeking 110+ line items with a prior-year baseline of $32,226.36; Bridgeport Board of Education's Grocery Items procurement (IFB BNB052266, response due June 30, 2026) spanning 1,100+ items for the National School Lunch Program with Buy American compliance and LINQ ordering integration; Head Start of Greater Dallas' Grocery Products IFB (IFB 26-GP, response due June 24, 2026) estimating 32,409 cases across frozen foods, produce, and meat with $969,460.94 total procurement value; and Douglas County School System's Food Supply and Distribution Services RFP (RFP 26-003, response due February 18, 2026) seeking a main-line distributor for approximately $9,000,000 in annual expenditures across 32 schools. Institutional food service procurement under this code is active and geographically distributed, but the code itself remains a poor fit for specific frozen-pear procurement and is better treated as an administrative catch-all for commodity food bundles.