UNSPSC 50401771: Taylor avocados

The variety of avocados known as taylor avocados

UNSPSC 50401771 Taylor avocados, a Commodity code, names a single produce line item, but the recent state and local opportunities do not include solicitations for Taylor avocados specifically. The available records show state and local governments buying fresh produce through two parallel purchasing models: institutional food service supply contracts (serving correctional facilities, state supported living centers, mental health facilities, and senior services) and school nutrition programs under federal Child and Adult Care Food Program or USDA Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program funding. Within institutional food service, produce procurement typically rolls into broader consumables and groceries buys that name specific items by USDA grade and packaging specification rather than by cultivar; the code's narrow commodity focus does not match the bundled-procurement pattern dominating recent activity. School districts, by contrast, procure fresh produce as a line-item category across multiple varieties, often with local-sourcing preferences (400-mile radius minimums) and organic or sustainability-focused evaluation criteria.

The issuing-body mix spans Texas Health and Human Services Commission (state supported living centers), Texas Department of Criminal Justice (correctional food warehouses), Illinois Department of Corrections and Department of Mental Health (facility food service), school districts in Georgia (Bartow County, Dougherty County, Bryan County, Early County) and Wisconsin (Madison Metropolitan), Head Start programs, county parks and recreation departments (Collier County, Florida), and senior services divisions (San Antonio). Geographic activity concentrates in Texas and Georgia, with secondary activity in Illinois, Florida, and Wisconsin. Representative recent opportunities include the Texas Health and Human Services Commission's IFB HHS0018082 (consumables for Lufkin State Supported Living Center, due October 23, 2026, naming prepared foods and food service supplies across 22 line items including produce categories but not Taylor avocados by name), the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's multiple fresh fruit and vegetable RFQs for warehouse distribution (IW267420 Snyder, IW267411 Wynne, IW267376 Palestine, all due October 2026), and the Dougherty County Board of Education's sealed bid for fresh produce (40 line items across 24 school sites, due June 16, 2026). The code shows no recent activity specific to Taylor avocados as a named commodity; pursuit under this code would depend on whether an issuing body bundles avocado cultivars into broader produce buys that do not specify variety by UNSPSC line.