UNSPSC 50403015: Tip top cabbage

The variety of chinese cabbage known as tip top cabbage

UNSPSC 50403015 Tip top cabbage, a Commodity code, represents fresh produce sourcing for institutional food service and school nutrition programs, based on recent state and local solicitations. State and local governments buy pre-processed, ready-to-eat fresh vegetables—principally carrots, potatoes, sweet potatoes, cabbage, and mixed greens—for delivery to school cafeterias, senior centers, child care facilities, correctional institutions, and other institutional settings. Produce must meet specific quality and food-safety standards, arrive in bulk case quantities with documented traceability, and comply with USDA Buy American provisions and HACCP protocols. School districts represent the dominant buyer segment, with secondary procurement from state departments of criminal justice, county boards of education, and specialized programs such as the USDA Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program (FFVP) for elementary students. Recent solicitations emphasize geographic preference for locally or regionally sourced produce within defined radii (200–400 miles of purchasing location), organic certification premiums, and delivery-fee integration into fixed or cost-plus pricing models.

The code sees broad geographic activity across the South and Texas, with concentrations in Georgia (Bartow County, Dougherty County, Glynn County, Bryan County, Liberty County, Muscogee County school districts; Bulloch County; Douglas County cooperative procurement; and state-level fresh-produce IFBs) and Texas (TDCJ bulk vegetable purchases for carrot, sweet potato, and white potato contracts; Northside Independent School District, McAllen ISD, Austin ISD, and Hillsborough County Public Schools in Florida). Recent representative opportunities include the Madison Metropolitan School District (Wisconsin) RFB 4163 requesting approximately 5,900 weekly servings of ready-to-eat fresh fruit and vegetable snacks for elementary students under the FFVP, response due July 29, 2026, with geographic and organic preference scoring; Head Start of Greater Dallas IFB 26-GP for approximately 32,409 cases of frozen and fresh produce to meet Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) requirements, bids due June 24, 2026; the Texas Department of Criminal Justice multiple IFBs for bulk carrots (IW253079, June 23, 2026), white potatoes (IW253099, June 23, 2026), and sweet potatoes for canning (IW253121, June 23, 2026); and the Bartow County School System RFP 10-2026-019 for local fresh fruits and vegetables from farms within 400 miles, proposals due June 22, 2026. Cooperative purchasing vehicles appear frequently (Douglas County GEC Buying Cooperative serving 30 school districts across two Georgia areas with estimated annual spending of $4.4 million to $1.1 million per area; piggybacking provisions in Muscogee County and other Georgia school district contracts allowing peer jurisdictions to adopt identical terms). Pricing is typically indexed to USDA Agricultural Marketing Service terminal-market reports or the Urner Barry commodity index, with vendor markups capped or cost-plus-fee structures substituting for fixed unit pricing. Most contracts span July 1 through June 30 fiscal-year terms with renewal options extending up to three to four additional one-year periods.