UNSPSC 50400000: Fresh vegetables

UNSPSC 50400000 Fresh vegetables is a Family code covering the supply and delivery of fresh produce—primarily fruits and vegetables in raw, pre-cut, and processed forms—to institutional food service operations across school districts, county jails, senior centers, and state agencies. Recent solicitations show state and local governments procuring fresh produce primarily for child nutrition programs under USDA reimbursable requirements, institutional food service for corrections and public safety, senior meal programs, and farm-to-school initiatives emphasizing local and regional sourcing. The work spans weekly or twice-weekly deliveries of comprehensive produce assortments in case quantities, often with tight temperature and shelf-life controls, compliance with HACCP and food safety standards, traceability documentation by farm of origin, and pricing indexed to USDA terminal market reports or negotiated on a cost-plus-fixed-fee basis.

Issuing bodies soliciting under this code include school districts (elementary through high school), county school boards, regional cooperative purchasing vehicles such as the Metropolitan Area Planning Council and Georgia Educational Consortium, county sheriffs' departments operating detention facilities, state departments of criminal justice, city and county senior services divisions, and special districts such as independent school systems. Recent repeat buyers include Bulloch County Schools and Glynn County Schools in Georgia; the Texas Department of Criminal Justice; Hillsborough County Public Schools in Florida; Northside Independent School District and Austin Independent School District in Texas; Henry County Schools and multiple other Georgia school nutrition programs; and county jails in California and Florida. Geographic activity clusters heavily in Georgia (reflected in 12+ recent opportunities from school districts and state IFBs), Texas (TDCJ, school districts, and city procurements), Florida (Hillsborough County, Head Start of Greater Dallas), Connecticut (Meriden and Middletown Public Schools), and Massachusetts (MAPC cooperative), with isolated activity in Missouri, Maryland, and California. Representative recent solicitations include Madison Metropolitan School District's RFB 4163 for fresh fruit and vegetable snacks (due July 29, 2026) under the USDA Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program with weekly delivery to elementary students and 5% preference for Wisconsin Supplier Diversity Program vendors; Head Start of Greater Dallas' IFB 26-GP (due June 24, 2026) for approximately 32,409 cases of frozen and fresh produce under Child and Adult Care Food Program requirements; Northside Independent School District's RFP 2026-048 (due May 7, 2026) for fresh produce delivery to 117 campuses five days per week with evaluation weighted 35% on price and 25% on extent of meeting district needs; and Bulloch County School District's local produce RFP (due May 4, 2026) requiring produce grown within 200 miles with 30 points weighted to price and 30 points to product quality and availability.