UNSPSC 50367225: Canned or jarred ponentine olives

The variety of olives known as ponentine olives that have been canned or jarred for preservation.

UNSPSC 50367225 Canned or jarred pimentine olives (Commodity) represents a narrow product line that state and local governments procure primarily through food service and nutrition programs serving schools, correctional facilities, health and human services institutions, and municipal food distribution systems. While the code name specifies pimentine olives specifically, recent state and local solicitations tagged under this code show that governments actually buy broad categories of food products—proteins, dairy, produce, grains, snacks, condiments, and prepared foods—for child nutrition programs, school lunch systems, institutional feeding, and community food access initiatives. The mismatch between the code's nominal scope and actual procurement activity suggests the code captures miscellaneous canned and jarred foods rather than olives alone. Issuing bodies span school districts (elementary through high school nutrition programs), state health and human services agencies, county boards of education, municipal food authorities, and correctional departments. School districts dominate recent activity, soliciting competitively for food supply and distribution services that serve tens of thousands of students daily, often through sealed-bid or RFP processes with line-item award options and firm fixed pricing over one- to five-year terms.

Geographic concentration is heaviest in Georgia, where school districts in Tattnall, Candler, Colquitt, Effingham, Dougherty, Lamar, Houston, and Richmond counties have posted invitations for bid spanning fresh and processed foods for the 2026–2027 school year in the past four months. Texas health and human services procurement, Oregon correctional food service, and Connecticut school nutrition also appear in recent activity. Representative opportunities include the Tattnall County Board of Education's sealed-bid solicitation (due July 22, 2026) for school nutrition food products meeting Georgia and CACFP specifications; the City of Edinburg, Texas RFP2026017 (due August 4, 2026) for CACFP meal program supplies to 400 children daily under Texas local-vendor preference rules; and the Houston County School District's dual ITB solicitation (ITB 27-001 and 27-002, due April 17 and April 16, 2026 respectively) for direct delivery and warehouse items supporting 31,000 students and 45,000 meals daily, valued at approximately $14 million annually. Buy American provisions (minimum 51 percent domestic agricultural content), USDA grade compliance, HACCP food safety certification, and nutritional labeling requirements appear consistently across all school district and state agency solicitations. Bidders must typically maintain commercial general liability insurance ($500,000 to $1,000,000 per occurrence), comply with E-Verify and debarment verification for larger contracts, and submit firm fixed pricing with no fuel surcharges. School districts routinely award to multiple vendors by line item and permit price adjustments only at contract renewal based on USDA or consumer price index data, with increases capped between 5 and 10 percent.