UNSPSC 50401805: Black appaloosa beans

The variety of beans known as black appaloosa beans

UNSPSC 50401805 Black appaloosa beans is a Commodity code that identifies a narrow legume product line, but recent state and local procurement activity under this code focuses on fresh produce supply to institutional food service operations—primarily school nutrition programs, child care facilities, and correctional systems—rather than on dried beans specifically. The issuing bodies are predominantly school districts (Madison Metropolitan, Bartow County, Dougherty County, Bryan County, Glynn County, and others across Georgia, Texas, and Florida), Head Start organizations, state departments of criminal justice, and municipal human services departments. Work being solicited ranges from weekly delivery of pre-cut and packaged produce for USDA-funded school snack programs to comprehensive annual produce supply contracts covering 40 to 72 line items of fresh fruits and vegetables, with typical evaluation weighting heavily on cost, product quality, delivery reliability, and compliance with Buy American and food safety standards. Vendors routinely compete on geographic sourcing preferences (produce grown within 50–400 miles), organic certification premiums, traceability documentation, and GAP or HACCP certification.

Geographic activity is concentrated in Georgia (Bartow County Schools, Dougherty County Board of Education, Bryan County Schools, Glynn County Board of Education, Savannah-Chatham County Public School System, and Douglas County School System via GEC Buying Cooperative) and Texas (Madison Metropolitan School District in Wisconsin, Head Start of Greater Dallas, Texas Department of Criminal Justice on multiple produce categories, Austin Independent School District, Northside Independent School District, and McAllen Independent School District), with secondary activity in Florida (Hillsborough County Public Schools) and Connecticut (Meriden Public Schools). The code shows no specific recent activity tagged to black appaloosa beans; rather, the procurement notices span apples, bananas, broccoli, carrots, lettuce, potatoes, strawberries, tomatoes, and seasonal specialty items. Representative recent solicitations include Madison Metropolitan School District's RFB 4163 for Fresh Fruit & Vegetable Snacks (IFB, due July 29, 2026, covering approximately 5,900 weekly servings for elementary students with organic-produce pricing preferences and strict traceability requirements), Bartow County Schools' RFP 10-2026-019 for Local Fresh Fruits and Vegetables (RFP, due June 22, 2026, emphasizing 400-mile sourcing radius and seasonal product variety), and Douglas County School System's RFP SN 26-004 through the GEC Buying Cooperative (RFP, due March 4, 2026, covering approximately $5.5 million estimated annual spend across 30 school districts in two Georgia regions with cost-plus-fixed-fee pricing capped at wholesale terminal-market benchmarks). Contract terms typically span one fiscal year (July 1 to June 30) with renewal options extending two to four years, firm pricing for initial periods, and prospective price redetermination keyed to USDA Agricultural Marketing Service reports or Consumer Price Index data.