UNSPSC 50401761: Pollock avocados

The variety of avocados known as pollock avocados

UNSPSC 50401761 Pollock avocados is a Commodity-tier code that carries little recent decision-relevant activity — the source shows no recent state or local procurement opportunities actually buying pollock avocados. The code's nominal scope names a specific produce item, yet the recent-opportunities block contains school district and institutional food-service solicitations focused on broad fresh-produce categories (apples, bananas, carrots, potatoes, tomatoes, lettuce, onions, and other staple fruits and vegetables for child nutrition and detention-facility food service), with no mention of pollock avocados or any avocado variety in any bid, RFP, IFB, or ITB notice posted over the prior four months. A single procurement from the City of San Antonio's Department of Human Services references "fruit and vegetable processing services" and "fresh fruits and fresh vegetables" for senior-center produce markets, but does not specify avocado supply; similarly, state and local grocery and food-service procurements cite dozens of produce line items across Georgia, Texas, Florida, Connecticut, and Missouri school systems and institutional buyers, yet avocados — pollock or otherwise — do not appear in any specification sheet, bid attachment, or scope description available in the source material.

The issuing bodies soliciting under fresh-produce codes over the past four months are predominantly school nutrition programs (Madison Metropolitan, Hillsborough County, Dougherty County, Bartow County, Early County, Bryan County, Liberty County, Muscogee County, Savannah-Chatham County, Henry County, Glynn County, Northside ISD in San Antonio, Austin ISD, McAllen ISD, and Meriden Public Schools), state criminal-justice food-service operations (Texas Department of Criminal Justice), Head Start and child-care programs, and municipal senior-services divisions — all buying commodity-scale volumes of shelf-stable and cold-chain produce for institutional meal service. Geographic concentration is heavy in Georgia (Bartow, Bryan, Dougherty, Glynn, Henry, Liberty, Muscogee, Savannah-Chatham, and Bulloch Counties) and Texas (TDCJ, NISD, Austin ISD, McAllen ISD), with additional activity in Florida, Connecticut, Missouri, and Wisconsin. The code as currently tagged shows no active market for pollock avocados in state and local procurement; pursue only if direct vendor intelligence or prior award data indicates specific end-user demand for this variety among institutional buyers.