UNSPSC 50376101: Canned or jarred organic champion quince

The variety of organic quince known as organic champion quince that has been canned or jarred for preservation.

UNSPSC 50376101 Canned or jarred organic champion quince is a Commodity code that captures state and local procurement of shelf-stable, packaged fruit products — primarily canned applesauce, dried fruit bars, and processed fruit items — rather than the specialized quince variety the code nominally names. The work being solicited is institutional food service provisioning: school districts, county boards of education, state departments of corrections, health and human services agencies, and senior services departments are all acquiring ready-to-eat or ready-to-serve fruit products in bulk for cafeteria operations, inmate feeding programs, and congregate nutrition services. Issuing bodies span state departments (Oregon Department of Corrections, Texas Health and Human Services Commission, State of Illinois, Texas Department of Criminal Justice), county boards of education (Hancock County Board of Education in Georgia, Gwinnett County in Georgia), municipal school districts (Austin Independent School District, City of Bridgeport Board of Education), and special-purpose state agencies (Illinois Veterans Home). The code sees activity from across the country, with recent solicitations posted from Georgia, Illinois, Oregon, Texas, and Connecticut.

Representative recent opportunities include the Oregon Department of Corrections' ITBs for canned applesauce (two separate postings in May and July 2026, each for approximately 1,900–4,760 cases with bids due June 2 and July 31, 2026), Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners' informal written quote for approximately 1,062 cases of shelf-stable food items including canned proteins and vegetables (due October 19, 2026), the State of Illinois weekly food orders for the Illinois Veterans Home at Quincy (brand-specific and brand-or-equal proposals, due August 24 and June 17, 2026), Austin Independent School District's RFP for dried fruit bars and apple crisps (due July 16, 2026), and the Texas Health and Human Services Commission's IFB for supplemental food and consumables spanning 210 line items across state hospitals and supported living centers (bid response deadline March 19, 2026, maximum potential value $4.5 million over three years). Pricing in recent awards has ranged from approximately $21.83 per case for canned applesauce to historical volumes in the thousands of cases per contract, with most solicitations structured as firm fixed-price or unit-price awards evaluated on best value and lowest responsive-and-responsible criteria. Buy American and domestic-content preferences are common; Oregon applies local-vendor preferences, and several states require compliance with school lunch program domestic-commodity rules requiring minimum 51 percent domestic ingredients for processed products.