UNSPSC 50401834: Lima beans

The variety of beans known as lima beans

UNSPSC 50401834 Lima beans, a Commodity code, is nominally indexed to legume supply, but the recent state and local opportunities posted under this code show little relevant activity—most solicitations tagged to the code involve broader fresh produce procurement for school nutrition programs, institutional food service, and child care, spanning apples, carrots, potatoes, tomatoes, and dozens of other items where lima beans are not specifically called out in the detailed scope. The one exception is the Texas Department of Criminal Justice canning procurement (IW253121, sweet potatoes for canning; IW253099, white potatoes for canning), which involves processed commodity vegetables but not lima beans explicitly. School districts, state agencies, and county boards of education drive the bulk of institutional produce buying under the code's tier, with most solicitations issued by Georgia school systems (Dougherty County, Glynn County, Bryan County, Bulloch County, Douglas County, Liberty County, Muscogee County, Henry County, Bartow County, and the state of Georgia itself), Texas systems (Northside Independent School District, McAllen ISD, Austin ISD, Hillsborough County in Florida), and Connecticut (Meriden Public Schools). A City of San Antonio RFP for produce-market consulting services also appears under this code, though it functions more as a farm-to-senior-center distribution model than commodity purchasing.

Recent solicitations show school nutrition programs and criminal-justice food service as the primary buyers. Representative opportunities include the Dougherty County Board of Education's sealed-bid procurement for 40 fresh-produce line items (IFB, bids due June 16, 2026); the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's bulk white-potato purchase for institutional canning (IW253099, IFB, bids due June 23, 2026); the Bartow County School System's local fresh-fruit-and-vegetable request with 400-mile sourcing preference (RFP 10-2026-019, proposals due June 22, 2026); and McAllen Independent School District's fresh-produce RFP for 20,000 students across 31 campuses (RFP 2026-1029, proposals due March 6, 2026). Geographic concentration leans heavily to Georgia school districts and Texas state and school agencies, with secondary activity in Florida, Connecticut, and Missouri. No specific incumbents or set-asides are named across the visible opportunities. Buyers weight cost, product quality, delivery reliability, and compliance with USDA food-safety and Buy American standards; many explicitly prefer local or regionally grown produce where cost and quality align. Lima beans do not surface as a distinct line item across the posted scope documents, suggesting the code may be broadly misapplied to general produce purchasing or that lima-bean-specific demand is minimal in state and local institutional food service.