UNSPSC 50355504: Frozen organic date plum persimmon

The variety of organic persimmons known as organic date plum persimmon that has been frozen for preservation.

UNSPSC 50355504 Frozen organic date plum persimmon is a Commodity code that sees minimal direct application in recent state and local procurement activity. The code nominally describes a specific frozen fruit product, but the recent opportunities tagged under it reveal a mismatch: state and local governments are procuring broad food-service categories — shelf-stable pantry staples, school nutrition program groceries spanning breakfast items through meat products, fresh produce by the case, and mixed food supplies for institutional feeding — rather than frozen organic date plum persimmons specifically. The solicitations reflect institutional food service at scale, driven primarily by school districts and county departments of education operating under National School Lunch Program and Buy American compliance requirements, alongside county senior services and municipal school boards seeking multi-hundred-line-item vendor agreements with firm fixed pricing, delivery logistics, and nutritional certification.

Recent activity concentrates in Georgia and Connecticut. Hancock County Board of Education (Sparta, Georgia) issued an IFB on June 10, 2026 for fresh produce across the 2026–27 school year with a June 26 response deadline; Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners (Lawrenceville, Georgia) posted an informal written quote request on October 13, 2026 for approximately 1,062 cases of shelf-stable food items with a response deadline of October 19, 2026; the City of Bridgeport Department of Public Purchases (Connecticut) sought electronic bids for over 1,100 line items of grocery items supporting the Bridgeport Board of Education with a June 30, 2026 deadline; and the Early County Board of Education (Georgia) solicited line-by-line food bids for approximately 300+ food and 60+ non-food items with a June 8, 2026 response date. The State of Georgia also posted a food, supplies, and kitchen products bid in May 2026 with details contained in an attached document. The code's narrow product definition does not align with the breadth of what state and local food-service procurement actually requires; vendors pursuing school nutrition or institutional food-service contracts should expect multi-category RFBs or IFBs rather than category-specific opportunities under this Commodity code.