UNSPSC 50355865: Frozen organic red ram plums

The variety of organic plums known as organic red ram plums that have been frozen for preservation.

UNSPSC 50355865 Frozen organic red ram plums (Commodity) describes a specific frozen-fruit product line, but recent state and local school-district procurement activity tagged under this code shows little to no direct purchasing of frozen organic red ram plums. Instead, state and local food-service buyers—primarily school districts and education departments—solicit broadly for grocery items, frozen foods, and fresh produce through IFB and RFP notices. The Bridgeport Board of Education's grocery items IFB (BNB052266, due June 30, 2026) and Decatur City Schools' frozen foods and grocery procurement (IFB, due May 15, 2026) represent the bulk of frozen and grocery activity in the recent record. These solicitations span over 1,000 line items each, including frozen products, but specify wellness requirements—Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act nutrition standards, whole-grain mandates, low sodium, zero trans fat, and no artificial additives—rather than organic designation. The code shows a mismatch between its nominal scope (a single specialty fruit product) and what state and local governments actually buy under it: multivendor, multiline-item food-service contracts supporting National School Lunch Program compliance.

Activity concentrates in school districts and boards of education across Georgia (Hancock County, Savannah-Chatham, Douglas County, Decatur, Early County), Connecticut (Bridgeport), and Missouri (Rockwood R-VI), with no single repeat buyer but consistent public-education sourcing patterns. Recent opportunities reflect standard school nutrition procurement: IFBs and RFPs with response dates clustering between mid-April and late June 2026, firm pricing for the full contract year (July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2027), Buy American requirements (51 percent domestic agricultural content), HACCP plans and food-recall procedures, E-Verify compliance, and delivery to multiple school sites Monday through Friday. The Douglas County School System's cooperative RFP for fresh produce and eggs across 30 districts (estimated $4.4 million for Area One alone, due March 4, 2026) and a $9 million food supply and distribution RFP show the scale of individual school district purchases, but frozen organic red ram plums do not appear as a line item in any posted solicitation detail. The code's relevance to state and local procurement remains limited unless a buyer explicitly specifies organic certification and the specific fruit type.