UNSPSC 50404504: Petite crimson lentils

The variety of lentils known as petite crimson lentils

UNSPSC 50404504 Petite crimson lentils, a Commodity code, sees minimal direct recent activity in state and local procurement. The single opportunity specifically tagged to this code — a Texas Department of Criminal Justice bid for carrots at 1,200 tons (IW241979-A, March 2026) — is plainly unrelated to the code's stated scope; the state and local markets have tagged fresh produce procurements under codes that span broader vegetable categories rather than isolating legumes. The recent opportunities block instead shows robust demand for fresh produce across school nutrition programs, institutional food service, and child nutrition initiatives, but those solicitations reference apples, carrots, potatoes, berries, and mixed vegetable arrays rather than petite crimson lentils specifically.

School districts and county boards of education dominate the issuing-body mix, with secondary activity from state departments of criminal justice (TDCJ), city procurement offices, and regional buying cooperatives. Georgia and Texas account for the heaviest concentration of recent postings — Glynn County Schools, Bulloch County Schools, Dougherty County Schools, Bryan County Schools, Liberty County Schools, Muscogee County Schools, and state-level Georgia produce bids on one side; TDCJ, Northside ISD (San Antonio), and McAllen ISD on the other — with scattered activity in Florida, Missouri, Connecticut, and other states. Representative recent opportunities include the Glynn County Board of Education's IFB for 60 produce line items including fresh fruits and vegetables (April 2026, sealed bids due April 14), Bulloch County Schools' IFP for locally grown produce within 200 miles (May 2026, proposals due May 4), and Northside ISD's RFP for fresh produce to all district campuses with five-day weekly delivery (RFP 2026-048, May 2026). The code itself shows no meaningful recent activity tied to petite crimson lentils or other legumes in the state and local record; pursuit under this specific code would require sourcing lentils as a direct commodity item for institutional food service, a use case not evidenced in recent posted opportunities.