UNSPSC 50401776: West indian seedling avocado

The variety of avocados known as west indian seedling avocados

UNSPSC 50401776 West Indian Seedling Avocado (Commodity) represents a narrow product line within fresh produce procurement, but recent state and local solicitations show avocados are rarely purchased in isolation—they appear instead as line items within comprehensive fresh-produce contracts for school nutrition programs, institutional food service, and senior services. State and local governments buy avocados as components of broader produce specifications, not as standalone commodity procurements. School districts dominate the issuing bodies, alongside state departments of criminal justice, county school systems, independent school districts, and municipal departments supporting senior nutrition and child care programs. These jurisdictions source produce through RFPs, RFQs, IFBs, and ITBs with response dates typically 30 to 60 days from posting, and many apply geographic sourcing preferences (notably 400-mile and 200-mile local-farm requirements in Wisconsin, Georgia, and Texas) or price-per-pound preference discounts on organic options to final bid evaluation.

The code shows recent activity concentrated in Texas, Georgia, and Florida, with secondary activity in Wisconsin, Connecticut, and Missouri. Representative recent solicitations include Madison Metropolitan School District's RFB 4163 (posted July 8, 2026; due July 29, 2026) for fresh fruit and vegetable snacks sourced within 400 miles of Madison with a 5% diverse-business preference and $0.20 per-pound organic-produce discount in price comparison; Hillsborough County Public Schools' RFP 26039RFQDST (posted April 13, 2026; due March 11, 2026) for fresh produce under the USDA Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program serving 18 elementary schools at $600,000 estimated annual budget; and Bulloch County School District's IFP seeking 24 locally-grown produce items (including avocados in sourcing mixes) from vendors within 200 miles, with proposals due May 4, 2026. Avocados appear in school nutrition produce specifications but no solicitation focuses on avocados alone; bid activity reflects institutional scale (school systems serving 6,900 to 83,000 students, state criminal justice kitchen operations, and Head Start programs with 32,409-case annual volumes), suggesting firms competing under this code must embed avocado supply capability within integrated, multi-item fresh-produce service models. Geographic and organic-preference weighting, HACCP and traceability requirements, and FOB-destination delivery terms with no fuel surcharges are standard across the recent opportunities surveyed.