UNSPSC 50355459: Frozen organic williams pears

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

UNSPSC 50355459 Frozen organic williams pears is a Commodity code that in practice encompasses a narrow range of specialty frozen fruit products procured as line items within much broader grocery and food-service solicitations. State and local governments buy frozen pears almost exclusively as components of school nutrition programs supporting the National School Lunch Program and School Breakfast Program, bundled alongside hundreds of other frozen and fresh produce items in single master contracts. Issuing bodies are predominantly school districts—city boards of education, county boards of education, and regional cooperative purchasing groups—which consolidate all food-service procurement (frozen products, fresh produce, proteins, dairy, dry goods, supplies) into one or two annual solicitations. These school nutrition programs emphasize USDA compliance, whole-grain and low-sodium standards, Buy American provisions requiring 51 percent domestic agricultural content, HACCP food-safety plans, 24/7 recall accessibility, and delivery to multiple school sites Monday through Friday during defined morning windows. Vendors must carry general liability and products liability insurance in the range of $500,000 to $2,000,000, comply with E-Verify and debarment certification, submit nutritional analyses and product formulation statements, and accept ordering through school-specific systems such as LINQ School Solutions or similar platforms.

Recent activity concentrates in Georgia and Connecticut, with school district solicitations posted from January through June 2026. The City of Bridgeport Board of Education (Connecticut) issued IFB BNB052266 on June 30, 2026 for over 1,100 grocery-item line items with response due the same date, requiring samples subject to blind testing and firm pricing through June 2027. Hancock County Board of Education (Georgia) posted IFB SN002-2027 on June 10, 2026 for over 200 fresh-produce line items with sealed bids due June 26, 2026; the solicitation spans apples, berries, cruciferous vegetables, and specialty fruits but does not explicitly name frozen pears. The Douglas County School System (Georgia) issued RFP SN 26-004 on February 4, 2026 through the GEC Buying Cooperative covering 30 school districts across two geographic areas, with estimated annual spend of approximately $4.4 million for Area One and $1.1 million for Area Two; the 72-line-item scope centers on fresh produce and eggs rather than frozen items. Savannah-Chatham County Public School System (Georgia) solicited Bid 26-34 for 72 fresh-produce items on March 22, 2026 with bids due April 23, 2026. The code shows no dedicated frozen-pear solicitations and limited explicit recent mentions; the commodity typically appears embedded in master grocery and produce bids where it competes as one SKU among hundreds.