UNSPSC 50347221: Frozen nafplion green olives

The variety of olives known as nafplion green olives that have been frozen for preservation.

UNSPSC 50347221 Frozen nafplion green olives is a Commodity code that does not reflect the actual scope of food procurement activity in the recent state and local opportunities. The code's name identifies a specific product—frozen green olives from Nafplion, Greece—yet the most recent solicitations under this designation span comprehensive food service contracts for school nutrition programs, corrections facilities, health and human services institutions, and municipal food distribution systems. State and local governments are actually buying broad categories of food products including proteins, dairy, produce, grains, frozen specialty items, beverages, paper goods, janitorial supplies, and consumable food-service materials through school district nutrition programs, state health and human services commissions, county boards of education, city procurement offices, and regional cooperative purchasing vehicles. The issuing bodies include Georgia school districts (Tattnall County, Candler County, Colquitt County, Lamar County, Dougherty County, Houston County, Effingham County, Richmond County, and Douglas County), the Texas Health and Human Services Commission and Department of State Health Services, the City of Edinburg and City of Bridgeport procurement offices, Invest Atlanta, the Oregon Department of Corrections, and specialized entities like the GEC Buying Cooperative serving multiple school districts across regions.

The geographic concentration is heaviest in Georgia, where school districts from Savannah to the southwest and central regions have posted five to seven separate IFBs, RFPs, and RFQs for school nutrition food procurement in the first half of 2026. Texas agencies (HHSC, DSHS, TDCJ, and the City of Edinburg) and Connecticut (Bridgeport) issued high-volume solicitations in the same period. Oregon's Department of Corrections has posted three separate ITBs for specific pickled-vegetable items since early March 2026. Representative recent opportunities include the Houston County School District ITB 27-001 for direct-delivery food, paper, and chemicals (ITB, April 17, 2026 deadline, $14 million estimated annual value), the Douglas County School System RFP 26-003 for food supply and distribution services (RFP, February 18, 2026 deadline, $9 million estimated annual expenditure), the Texas HHSC IFB HHS0016792 for supplemental food and consumables statewide (IFB, February 23, 2026 deadline, $4.5 million maximum value over three years), and the City of Bridgeport BNB052266 for grocery items supporting the Board of Education Food & Nutrition Services Department (IFB, June 30, 2026 deadline, 1,100+ line items). The code shows significant recent activity but poor semantic alignment with its declared commodity scope; the recent opportunities are grounded in broad institutional food-service procurement rather than in frozen nafplion olives as a discrete product line.