UNSPSC 50403015: Tip top cabbage

The variety of chinese cabbage known as tip top cabbage

UNSPSC 50403015 Tip top cabbage, a Commodity code, represents produce supply and delivery to institutional food service operations across state agencies, county and city governments, school districts, and correctional facilities. State and local procurement offices under this code are purchasing fresh vegetables—primarily cabbage and mixed fresh produce—for cafeteria and canteen operations serving student populations, incarcerated individuals, senior center participants, and residents of state-supported living centers. Recent solicitations span prepared and fresh vegetable products in contexts ranging from weekly school nutrition deliveries to institutional food warehousing and processing.

State departments of criminal justice, health and human services commissions, and county school systems dominate recent activity. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice has posted multiple fresh-produce and root-vegetable solicitations (carrots, white potatoes, sweet potatoes for canning) targeting regional food warehouses; the Texas Health and Human Services Commission issued invitations for consumable foods and canteen groceries at state-supported living centers in Lufkin and Mexia; and Georgia school districts (Bartow County, Dougherty County, Bryan County, Early County) and the Illinois Department of Corrections and Department of Mental Health have solicited fresh fruit and vegetable supply contracts. Texas and Georgia school nutrition programs account for the largest share of recent opportunities, with activity also present in Illinois, Wisconsin, and Florida. Representative recent solicitations include the Texas Health and Human Services Commission's IFB HHS0018082 for consumable foods (including fresh produce and food service supplies) at Lufkin State Supported Living Center, due October 23, 2026; the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's multiple IFBs for fresh fruit and vegetable delivery to regional food warehouses and correctional facilities (IW267376, IW267420, IW267411), due October 14–19, 2026; the Illinois Department of Corrections' small-business-set-aside RFQ 27426DOCJOLIEB53849 for bi-weekly fresh-produce delivery to Joliet Treatment Center, due September 3, 2026; and the Dougherty County Board of Education's sealed-bid procurement for fresh produce across 24 school nutrition sites, due June 16, 2026. Madison Metropolitan School District (Wisconsin) RFB 4163 for ready-to-eat fresh fruit and vegetable snacks sourced within 400 miles, due July 29, 2026, illustrates emerging locational preferences and organic-product discounting in school nutrition procurement.