UNSPSC 50363905: Canned or jarred issai kiwi fruit

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

UNSPSC 50363905 Canned or jarred issai kiwi fruit, a Commodity code, maps poorly to the actual scope of recent state and local solicitations. While the code name specifies a single niche product—canned or jarred issai kiwi fruit—the opportunities posted under or near this code reflect broad institutional food procurement across shelf-stable, fresh, frozen, and refrigerated categories. Issuing bodies include state corrections and health departments, county boards of education, municipal school districts, state agencies, and counties, spanning Georgia, Illinois, Oregon, Texas, and Connecticut. The work being solicited ranges from multi-hundred-line-item food service contracts for prisons and state hospitals to fresh produce bids for school nutrition programs to narrow category buys for senior services centers. Recent solicitations show food procurement split between specialized institutional suppliers (corrections, state hospitals, veterans homes) and general commercial food service vendors. Governance includes strict USDA compliance, Buy American provisions in school nutrition, prevailing wage requirements in some states, and stringent vendor insurance and background-check standards.

Geographic activity clusters in Texas (TDCJ, HHSC, Austin ISD), Illinois (state veterans homes), Oregon (Department of Corrections), and the Southeast (Georgia, Connecticut). Representative recent opportunities include the State of Illinois Chief Procurement Office's weekly food orders for the Illinois Veterans Home at Quincy (RFP and ITB, August 2026 due date), the Oregon Department of Corrections' canned applesauce bid for approximately 4,760 cases (ITB S-29100-00017453, July 31, 2026 due date at $21.84 per historical case price), the Texas Health and Human Services Commission's supplemental food and consumables across state hospitals and supported living centers (IFB HHS0016792V2, maximum potential value $4.5 million over three years through August 2028), and Hancock County Board of Education's fresh produce bid for 2026–27 (IFB #SN002-2027, June 26, 2026 due date). The code shows material recent activity but primarily in categories—canned vegetables, proteins, dairy, specialty entrees, fresh produce—that bear no relation to the narrowly defined issai kiwi fruit commodity; the mismatch suggests the code's use in these solicitations is either a tagging error or the code captures a broader food procurement family in practice.