UNSPSC 50401906: Burpees golden beets

The variety of beets known as burpees golden beets

UNSPSC 50401906 Burpees golden beets, a Commodity code, does not reflect the actual procurement activity documented in recent state and local solicitations. State and local agencies are buying fresh produce—primarily apples, bananas, carrots, lettuce, potatoes, tomatoes, broccoli, and mixed fresh fruits and vegetables—for school nutrition programs, detention facilities, senior services, and child care operations, not the specific variety implied by the code name.

School districts dominate the issuing-body mix, with recent opportunities from Madison Metropolitan School District (Wisconsin), Northside Independent School District (Texas), Bartow County School System (Georgia), Bulloch County Schools (Georgia), Savannah-Chatham County Public Schools (Georgia), Henry County Schools (Georgia), Muscogee County Schools (Georgia), Liberty County Schools (Georgia), Dougherty County Board of Education (Georgia), and McAllen Independent School District (Texas). State departments and criminal-justice agencies also procure produce—the Texas Department of Criminal Justice has issued multiple IFBs for carrots, sweet potatoes, and white potatoes for institutional food service. Head Start of Greater Dallas and municipal senior services round out the buyer base. Activity clusters heavily in Texas and Georgia; Wisconsin, Florida, Connecticut, and Missouri appear in smaller numbers. Representative recent opportunities include Madison Metropolitan School District's RFB 4163 (due July 29, 2026) for approximately 5,900 servings weekly of ready-to-eat fresh produce for elementary students participating in the USDA Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program, with a 5% preference discount for diverse-owned businesses and pricing per pound; Northside Independent School District's RFP 2026-048 (due May 7, 2026) for USDA Child Nutrition–compliant fresh produce for five-day weekly delivery to 117 campuses across the San Antonio area, evaluated on price (35%), extent of goods meeting needs (25%), quality (15%), long-term cost (10%), and other factors (10%); and the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's IFB IW241979-A (due March 17, 2026) for 1,200 tons of carrots meeting dimensional specifications, with set-aside preference for Texas-based service-disabled veteran-owned and Texas-based vendors. Most school district contracts run from July through June with automatic renewal options, typically for one to four additional one-year periods, and competitive awards often go to multiple vendors on a line-item basis.