UNSPSC 50401735: Hardee avocados

The variety of avocados known as hardee avocados

UNSPSC 50401735 Hardee avocados, a Commodity code, covers fresh produce supply to state and local school nutrition programs, senior services, and institutional food operations, with recent activity dominated by sealed-bid and RFP procurements for fresh fruit and vegetable delivery to K–12 districts, early childhood programs, and correctional institutions. State and local governments use this code to acquire produce meeting USDA nutrition standards, HACCP certification, and food safety compliance—typically in ready-to-eat or fresh-cut form, delivered weekly or bi-weekly to multiple school sites or institutional kitchens, with pricing often tied to USDA terminal market reports or cost-plus fixed-fee structures. The issuing-body mix spans school districts of varying size (from small rural districts to large urban systems serving 20,000+ students), county school boards, state departments of criminal justice, municipal senior services divisions, Head Start child care programs, and cooperative purchasing entities that aggregate demand across multiple districts. Texas, Georgia, Florida, Missouri, and Connecticut show the heaviest recent activity, with school nutrition procurement concentrated in the Southeast and Texas.

Representative recent opportunities include the Madison Metropolitan School District's RFB 4163 (posted July 8, 2026, due July 29, 2026) seeking 5,900 servings weekly of ready-to-eat produce for elementary students in the USDA Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program, with sourcing limited to farms within 400 miles and Wisconsin, a 5% preference for diverse-owned vendors, and evaluation weighted 40% cost, 15% geographic preference, and 10% traceability documentation; the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's IFB IW241979-A (February 25, 2026) for 1,200 tons of carrots meeting dimensional specifications, with set-aside preferences for Texas service-disabled-veteran-owned and Texas-produced goods; and the Northside Independent School District (San Antonio) RFP 2026-048 (posted April 14, 2026, due May 7, 2026) for fresh USDA Child Nutrition Reimbursable–compliant produce delivered five days per week to all district campuses, with evaluation split 35% purchase price, 25% extent of goods meeting needs, 15% quality, and 10% total long-term cost. Most contracts run July 1 through June 30 with one to four optional renewal terms; pricing remains firm initially (typically 60–90 days post-award) then redetermines semi-annually against USDA Agricultural Marketing Service or Bureau of Labor Statistics indices. Insurance requirements uniformly demand general liability ($500,000 to $2 million) and workers' compensation; Buy American compliance is standard, and many districts impose delivery to multiple sites, online ordering systems, and traceability documentation as baseline operational requirements.