UNSPSC 50363902: Canned or jarred arctic beauty kiwi fruit

The variety of kiwi fruit known as arctic beauty kiwi fruit that has been canned or jarred for preservation.

UNSPSC 50363902 Canned or jarred arctic beauty kiwi fruit is a Commodity code that in practice covers a narrow slice of the shelf-stable canned and jarred produce that state and local governments procure for institutional food service—but recent state and local opportunities show little direct activity under this specific code. Instead, the code's nominal scope maps unevenly to broader food-service procurements where canned fruits, vegetables, and specialty produce items appear as line items within multi-hundred-item commodity bids. State and local issuing bodies soliciting under related codes include counties (Gwinnett County, Georgia; Hancock County, Georgia), state agencies (Illinois Chief Procurement Office, Oregon Department of Corrections, Texas Health and Human Services Commission, State of Georgia), independent school districts (Austin ISD, Hancock County Board of Education), cities (Bridgeport, Connecticut), and specialized state institutions (Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Illinois Veterans Homes). These jurisdictions aggregate food procurement across proteins, dairy, grains, fresh and frozen produce, and consumable supplies into single comprehensive IFBs or RFPs rather than isolate individual produce types; when canned fruit appears, it typically represents a handful of line items within a much larger scope.

Geographic activity spans multiple regions, with recent solicitations posted from Georgia (Gwinnett County, Hancock County), Illinois (state-level), Oregon (state-level), Texas (state-level and local), Connecticut (Bridgeport), and others. Representative opportunities include Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners' June 2026 IWQ for approximately 1,062 cases of shelf-stable food items including canned proteins and vegetables (response due October 19, 2026); Oregon Department of Corrections' May 2026 and July 2026 ITBs for approximately 1,900–4,760 cases of canned applesauce (responses due June 2 and July 31, 2026, respectively, with historical awards at $21.82–21.84 per case); Texas HHSC's May 2026 IFB for supplemental food and consumables across 210 line items for state hospitals and living centers statewide (response due March 19, 2026; maximum potential value $4.5 million over three years); and Texas TDCJ's May 2026 IFB for approximately 382 cafeteria food-product line items across five geographic warehouse areas (response due May 4, 2026, extended from April 21). The code shows activity but is rarely called out as a standalone procurement—buyers typically embed canned specialty fruits within broad-basket institutional food service bids using cooperative purchasing frameworks, firm fixed pricing, FOB destination delivery, and multi-vendor awards where volume justifies split line-item awards.