UNSPSC 50402707: Giant white celery

The variety of celery known as giant white celery

UNSPSC 50402707 Giant white celery, a Commodity code, is rarely solicited under its specific designation in recent state and local procurement activity. The code nominally covers a single produce item, yet state and local governments actually buy it as part of broader fresh-produce and food-service contracts. Recent opportunities show the code sitting within larger aggregated produce buys—school nutrition programs, correctional facilities, mental-health centers, senior services, and state-supported living centers all procure fresh vegetables as line items within multi-category food solicitations rather than as standalone celery purchases. The solicitations show no evidence of vendors specializing in celery alone or of celery commanding separate procurement attention. Instead, celery appears as one produce line among dozens in comprehensive food-service RFBs, IFBs, and RFPs.

State and local issuing bodies pursuing these broader procurements span school districts (Madison Metropolitan School District, Bartow County Schools, Dougherty County Board of Education, Bryan County Schools, Early County Board of Education), state agencies (Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Illinois Department of Corrections, Illinois Department of Mental Health), counties (Collier County), cities (San Antonio), and special-purpose entities (Head Start of Greater Dallas). Texas and Georgia jurisdictions dominate the recent activity, with Texas agencies (HHSC, TDCJ) issuing multiple concurrent fresh-produce and food-service IFBs and Illinois correctional and mental-health facilities conducting fresh-produce small-purchase solicitations. Geographic spread centers on Texas, Georgia, Illinois, and Wisconsin, with most recent opportunities posted between May and October 2026. Representative recent opportunities include the Texas Health and Human Services Commission's IFB HHS0018082 for consumable foods at Lufkin State Supported Living Center (IFB, due October 23, 2026), Bryan County School Nutrition Program's sealed-bid fresh-produce procurement for School Year 2026–2027 (due May 27, 2026), and the Dougherty County Board of Education's fresh-produce bid for 24 school nutrition sites (IFB, due June 16, 2026). The code shows sufficient recent activity in aggregated produce buys to warrant monitoring as a line item within broader food-service awards, though celery-specific pursuit would require identifying contracts where it is itemized separately or where vendor specialization in that commodity is explicitly valued.