UNSPSC 50364006: Canned or jarred nagami kumquats

The variety of kumquats known as nagami kumquats that have been canned or jarred for preservation.

UNSPSC 50364006 Canned or jarred nagami kumquats is a Commodity code that, based on recent state and local solicitations, reflects procurement of shelf-stable canned and jarred fruit products for institutional food service — though the recent opportunities tagged to this code encompass a much broader range of canned fruit, fresh produce, and food commodities than the code's nominal scope suggests. State and local buyers under this code include county boards of education, state departments of corrections, state health and human services agencies, city boards of education, and county purchasing offices. The work being solicited ranges from purchases of dozens to hundreds of cases of canned applesauce, dried fruit bars, fresh produce assortments, and mixed shelf-stable food inventories, typically delivered to central warehouses, senior services centers, correctional facilities, state hospitals, and school nutrition centers. Issuing bodies solicit either through IFB (Invitation for Bid), IFB/ITB (used interchangeably by states), or RFP formats, with awards made to lowest responsive and responsible bidders or on best-value criteria, often with options to split awards across multiple vendors by line item when deemed in the buyer's interest.

Recent activity spans multiple states, with Oregon (Department of Corrections issuing two separate applesauce ITBs in May and July 2026), Illinois (Chief Procurement Office managing weekly food orders for the Illinois Veterans Home at Quincy across multiple quarterly cycles), Texas (Health and Human Services Commission, Comptroller/TDCJ), Georgia (state-level food procurement), and Connecticut and Georgia (municipal and county school boards) representing the most visible sources. Representative recent opportunities include the Oregon Department of Corrections ITB S2910000016975 for approximately 1,904 cases of canned applesauce due June 2, 2026, with a five percent Oregon-processing and resident-bidder preference; Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners' informal written quote for approximately 1,062 cases of mixed shelf-stable food items (peanut butter, canned proteins, soups, vegetables) due October 19, 2026, with F.O.B. destination delivery to Lawrenceville, Georgia; and the Texas Health and Human Services Commission IFB HHS0017449 for food and consumable products to serve the El Paso State Supported Living Center, due July 11, 2026, with a historical contract value guideline of $1.5 million for the prior period and awards on best-value rather than lowest-price basis. The code shows significant recent activity but reflects a mismatch between its nominal scope (kumquats specifically) and the actual institutional food-service buying happening under the classification — nearly all recent solicitations involve mixed or bulk commodity food procurement rather than the specialty item the code names.