UNSPSC 50401770: Simpson avocados

The variety of avocados known as simpson avocados

UNSPSC 50401770 Simpson avocados is a Commodity code covering fresh fruit supplied to state and local institutions — school districts, criminal justice agencies, senior services, and child nutrition programs — in ready-to-eat or raw form, delivered weekly or as needed to multiple sites. Recent solicitations show a mix of narrow commodity buys (carrots, white potatoes, sweet potatoes for canning by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice) and broad fresh-produce procurements that include avocados alongside dozens of other fruits and vegetables. School nutrition programs dominate the issuing-body mix, with sealed bids and RFPs from independent school districts, county school boards, and regional school cooperatives in Georgia, Texas, Florida, and Missouri. State criminal justice and senior services agencies round out the buyer base. Georgia school districts appear most active in recent solicitations, with Bartow County, Dougherty County, Bryan County, Bulloch County, Douglas County, Glynn County, Liberty County, and Muscogee County all posting fresh-produce or local-produce RFPs or IFBs between March and May 2026; Texas school districts including Northside Independent School District and McAllen Independent School District, and the Austin Independent School District, also solicited aggressively. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice issued multiple narrow-commodity bids for carrots and potatoes in the March–June window. Two Georgia solicitations and one Texas opportunity (the City of San Antonio senior services RFP) centered on produce without naming avocados explicitly, but the broad fresh-produce code typically encompasses the full crop portfolio.

Representative recent opportunities include the Hillsborough County Public Schools Fresh Fruit & Vegetable Program RFP (posted February 11, 2026, proposals due March 11, 2026) seeking specialty fruits and vegetables for 18 elementary schools under federal FFVP grant funding, with cost-plus fixed-fee pricing and an estimated annual budget of $600,000; the Northside Independent School District fresh-produce RFP (April 14, 2026, sealed bids due May 7, 2026) covering the fourth-largest Texas school district with five-day-per-week delivery across all campuses; the Bartow County School System local fresh fruits and vegetables RFP (posted May 21, 2026, bids due June 22, 2026) restricting sourcing to 400 miles with weighted scoring on cost, seasonal variety, ordering capability, product quality, and customer support; and the Douglas County School System RFP through the GEC Buying Cooperative (posted February 4, 2026, proposals due March 4, 2026) covering 30 school districts across two Georgia areas with approximately $5.5 million estimated annual spend on produce and eggs. School nutrition contracts typically run July 1 through June 30 with one to four optional renewal terms, require HACCP certification and traceability systems, mandate Buy American compliance, and emphasize local or regionally sourced produce where cost and quality permit. Payment terms are commonly Net 30 from delivery or invoice, with pricing firm for the initial contract period and subject to market redetermination or escalation only after six months or a year, supported by USDA Agricultural Marketing Service or Consumer Price Index documentation.