UNSPSC 50403906: Musky gourd

The variety of gourds known as musky gourd

UNSPSC 50403906 Musky gourd, a Commodity code, does not align with the recent state and local procurement activity posted under it. The code's nominal scope—a specific agricultural product—finds no match in recent solicitations, which instead cover broad fresh produce procurement for school nutrition programs, institutional food service, and child nutrition initiatives.

The recent opportunities show state and local buying across school districts, state departments of criminal justice, and county school systems primarily in Georgia and Texas, with secondary activity in Florida, Connecticut, Missouri, and other states. Representative recent solicitations include Madison Metropolitan School District's RFB 4163 for fresh fruit and vegetable snacks (due July 29, 2026) sourced within 400 miles and processed for ready-to-eat delivery, Northside Independent School District's RFP 2026-048 for fresh produce in San Antonio (due May 7, 2026) with weekly five-day-per-week campus delivery, Douglas County School System's RFP SN 26-004 for fresh produce and eggs serving 30 Georgia school districts (due March 4, 2026) with estimated annual spend of $5.5 million across two geographic areas, and the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's multiple IFBs for carrots, sweet potatoes, and white potatoes for institutional canning operations (bids due June 23, 2026). The code shows activity across school nutrition programs (elementary through high school), state prison food service, and child nutrition centers, with pricing typically structured as firm fixed unit prices, cost-plus models, or USDA market-index-based markups. Evaluation commonly weights cost at 30–50 percent, product quality and availability at 15–30 percent, service and delivery capability at 10–25 percent, and vendor qualifications or references at 5–20 percent. Vendors face requirements for HACCP certification, Buy American compliance, general liability insurance of $500,000 to $2 million, and E-Verify authorization. The code sees no recent activity specifically matching "musky gourd" as a distinct commodity line—the mismatch between the code name and actual procurement scope suggests a classification error in the source data rather than active market demand for this specific product.