UNSPSC 50355403: Frozen organic asian pears

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

UNSPSC 50355403 Frozen organic asian pears is a Commodity code that sits at the intersection of school nutrition procurement and fresh/frozen produce supply. State and local governments use this code to procure specialized produce items—in this case frozen organic asian pears—as part of broader food service contracts supporting child nutrition programs, breakfast and lunch operations, and USDA meal compliance. The sourcing shown in recent opportunities reflects mixed approaches: some jurisdictions issue hyperspecific line-item bids for individual produce SKUs within larger frozen-food and grocery RFPs, while others aggregate frozen and fresh produce into consolidated purchasing vehicles that span dozens or hundreds of line items. The work being solicited is supply-side and operational—vendors must deliver to school warehouses and cafeteria loading docks on fixed schedules (typically Monday–Friday, 7 a.m.–2 p.m.), maintain cold-chain integrity, rotate stock by date, hold appropriate insurance, satisfy Buy American domestic-content provisions (51 percent domestic ingredients in most solicitations), undergo blind taste and quality testing, maintain HACCP food-safety plans with 24/7 recall capability, and accept no fuel surcharges or price escalations beyond contractually specified adjustment windows.

Recent activity concentrates in Georgia school districts and adjacent southeastern states, with secondary activity in Connecticut and Missouri. Douglas County School System (Georgia) has issued two major food-supply RFPs covering 30 cooperating districts under the GEC Buying Cooperative, with fresh-produce line items (including produce categories that would encompass asian pears) budgeted at approximately $4.4 million for Area One and $1.1 million for Area Two through June 2027; Savannah-Chatham County Public Schools, Hancock County Board of Education, Early County Board of Education, and Decatur City Schools have all posted fresh-produce and frozen-food IFBs or RFPs with response dates between April and June 2026. Outside Georgia, Bridgeport Connecticut issued an IFB (BNB052266) for grocery items to the Board of Education due June 30, 2026, with over 1,100 line items including frozen products, and Rockwood R-VI School District in St. Louis County, Missouri solicited grocery items including frozen produce with bid due April 29, 2026. The code itself sees steady K–12 school nutrition activity but no recent standalone frozen-organic-asian-pear bids; this Commodity code is almost certainly subsumed within larger frozen-food or produce family codes in practice, making line-item visibility limited.