UNSPSC 50401825: Green romano beans

The variety of beans known as green romano beans

UNSPSC 50401825 Green romano beans is a Commodity code that covers the procurement of fresh green beans, including romano varieties, for use in school nutrition programs, child care facilities, senior services, and institutional food service operations. State and local governments procure this produce primarily through school districts and nutrition programs serving K–12 students, Head Start and child care programs, corrections facilities, and senior centers. The work solicited ranges from weekly delivery of fresh produce snacks under USDA Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program grants, to comprehensive annual food service contracts that include green beans as one line item among dozens of produce varieties. Issuing bodies include independent and consolidated school districts across multiple states, county boards of education, Head Start agencies, state departments of corrections, and municipal parks and senior services divisions. School nutrition programs dominate the recent activity, with most opportunities requiring vendors to source produce locally or domestically, meet HACCP food safety standards, deliver on fixed schedules with temperature control, and comply with USDA Buy American and child nutrition program requirements.

Geographic activity centers on Texas, Georgia, and Florida, with significant recent solicitation volume in the southeastern United States. Representative opportunities include the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's competitive bids for carrots and potatoes (IFBs IW253079, IW253099, IW241979-A, IW242176) posted in June and March 2026 with responses due within weeks; the Madison Metropolitan School District's RFB 4163 for fresh fruit and vegetable snacks due July 29, 2026, requiring delivery of pre-packaged produce within 400 miles of Madison, Wisconsin with a 5% diverse-owned business preference; the Northside Independent School District (San Antonio, Texas) RFP 2026-048 for fresh produce due May 7, 2026, serving 117 schools with five-day weekly delivery; and the Bartow County School System (Georgia) RFP 10-2026-019 for local fresh fruits and vegetables due June 22, 2026, with produce sourced within 400 miles and delivered to a central warehouse. School nutrition contracts typically run July through June with annual renewal options, pricing firm for contract term with prospective redetermination clauses, and evaluation weighted toward cost (30–50%), product quality (15–25%), delivery capability (10–20%), and vendor qualifications or local/diverse-owned status (5–15%). Insurance requirements range from $500,000 to $2,000,000 general liability. No recent opportunities show set-aside restrictions limiting competition; however, local-sourcing preferences and diverse-vendor scoring points appear in multiple jurisdictions.