UNSPSC 50401800: Beans

The type of vegetable known as beans

UNSPSC 50401800 Beans (Class) represents fresh produce procurement across state and local school nutrition programs, senior services operations, and institutional food service. The code captures state and local government purchases of fresh vegetables including beans, carrots, potatoes, and mixed produce items for child and senior nutrition programs, with recent solicitations emphasizing local sourcing, USDA compliance, and delivery to multiple school sites or institutional locations.

State and local issuers purchasing under this code include school districts (Madison Metropolitan in Wisconsin, Northside Independent in Texas, Savannah-Chatham in Georgia, McAllen in Texas, Salt Lake City in Utah, Austin in Texas, and Meriden Public Schools in Connecticut), the Texas Department of Criminal Justice procuring bulk vegetables for institutional food service, county school systems (Bartow, Bulloch, Bryan, Dougherty, Liberty, Muscogee, Henry, and Glynn Counties in Georgia), the City of San Antonio's Senior Services Division, and Head Start of Greater Dallas. Georgia school districts account for the highest concentration of recent activity. Representative solicitations include Madison Metropolitan School District's RFB 4163 (Fresh Fruit & Vegetable Snacks, response due July 29, 2026) sourcing 5,900 weekly servings of ready-to-eat produce from vendors within 400 miles; Northside Independent School District's RFP 2026-048 (Fresh Produce for Child Nutrition, response due May 7, 2026) covering five-day-per-week delivery to 117 campuses; the Texas Department of Criminal Justice IFB IW241979-A (Carrots, 1,200 tons, response due March 17, 2026); and the Douglas County School System's RFP SN 26-004 (Fresh Produce and Eggs through GEC Buying Cooperative, response due March 4, 2026) spanning 30 districts across Georgia with estimated annual spending of approximately $5.5 million combined. Recent activity concentrates in Texas, Georgia, Wisconsin, Utah, Connecticut, Missouri, and Florida, with school nutrition programs driving the majority of procurements under seasonal produce contracts (July through June fiscal years) and USDA Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program requirements dominating specification language.