UNSPSC 50404114: Mint

The variety of herbs known as mint

UNSPSC 50404114 Mint is a Commodity code that frames a narrow product category; however, recent state and local solicitations tagged with this code do not in fact involve mint as a consumable product or flavoring. Instead, the active procurement activity under this code concerns broad food and consumable products — including fresh and frozen proteins, dairy, produce, grains, beverages, condiments, snacks, and food service supplies — procured by state agencies, school districts, and other jurisdictions to support institutional food service operations. The issuing bodies span state health and human services departments, state departments of criminal justice, county school districts, and independent school districts. Texas agencies (the Health and Human Services Commission and Department of Criminal Justice, via the Comptroller's office) dominate the recent activity, with solicitations also posted by the State of Illinois, the State of Georgia, Fairfax County Public Schools (Virginia), Rockwood R-VI School District (Missouri), and the Douglas County School System (Georgia). The mismatch between the code's nominal scope and actual procurement suggests that state and local procurement offices are using 50404114 as a catch-all taxonomy marker for institutional food service supply rather than a mint-specific classification.

Recent opportunities reflect high-volume, mission-critical procurement by institutional food service operations. The Texas Health and Human Services Commission issued IFB HHS0017449 (response due July 13, 2026) for food and consumable products at the El Paso State Supported Living Center covering over 210 line items at a prior-period spend of $1.5 million annually; the same agency issued a predecessor IFB HHS0016792 (and a subsequent version HHS0016792V2 with response due March 19, 2026) for supplemental food and consumables statewide with a maximum potential value of $4.5 million over three years serving 23 qualified ordering entities across Texas. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice, via the Comptroller's Statewide Procurement Division, solicited IFB 304T26300CF for cafeteria food products across five geographic warehouse areas with approximately 382 line items (response deadline May 4, 2026). Fairfax County Public Schools posted IFB 2000004323 for Master Grocery K-12 requiring weekly delivery to 45 schools and seven distribution kitchens across Virginia (response due April 27, 2026). Rockwood R-VI School District in Missouri solicited over 900 grocery line items for the 2026–2027 school year (response due April 29, 2026) serving approximately 6,900 lunch and 900 breakfast participants daily across nearly 19,000 students. The Douglas County School System in Georgia issued RFP SN26-004 for fresh produce and eggs across 30 school districts via the GEC Buying Cooperative with estimated annual spending of $4.4 million for Area One and $1.1 million for Area Two (response due March 4, 2026), and RFP 26-003 for main-line food supply and distribution serving 32,500 students with estimated annual spend of $9 million (response due February 18, 2026).