UNSPSC 50346602: Frozen northline saskatoon berries

The variety of saskatoon berries known as northline saskatoon berries that have been frozen for preservation.

UNSPSC 50346602 Frozen northline saskatoon berries, a Commodity code, does not reflect active state and local procurement activity. The recent-opportunities block shows no solicitations for saskatoon berries or similar specialty frozen berries. Instead, the opportunities tagged under this code span broad grocery and food service procurement for institutional customers—state hospitals, correctional facilities, school districts, and Head Start programs—where frozen berries appear only as incidental line items within larger food-supply contracts. The Oregon Department of Corrections (ODOC) issued an ITB in April 2026 for frozen fruit berries (blackberries, blueberries, strawberries, Marion berries) to support institutional food service, with pricing anchored to historical data of $0.89 per pound, but this procurement does not isolate saskatoon berries as a commodity category. State and local agencies procure frozen berries as part of comprehensive nutrition programs serving students, patients, and detainees, not as a standalone commodity requiring specialized sourcing.

Institutional food-service contracting in the recent-opportunities block centers on Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) solicitations for statewide supplemental food and consumables (IFBs HHS0016792, HHS0017449, HHS0017660) with historical spend ranging from $32,000 to $1.5 million annually, school district multi-item grocery bids across Georgia, Missouri, Connecticut, and Florida, and Head Start child-care nutrition procurement. The issuing-body mix spans state health agencies, county and municipal school systems, special-purpose districts (Head Start), and correctional facilities, with school nutrition programs the dominant buyer category. Geographic activity concentrates in Texas (HHSC multi-facility contracts), Georgia (Fulton County, Savannah-Chatham County, Bulloch County, Henry County school systems, Douglas County), and scattered municipal procurement in Connecticut and Missouri. The code as presently assigned does not capture saskatoon-berry-specific demand—procurement professionals seeking to pursue specialty frozen-berry supply should monitor school nutrition and institutional food-service RFPs for line-item inclusion rather than expect dedicated commodity codes for regional fruit varieties.