UNSPSC 50404811: Oyster mushrooms

The variety of mushrooms known as oyster mushrooms

UNSPSC 50404811 Oyster mushrooms, a Commodity code, describes fresh produce items solicited under state and local child nutrition, institutional food service, and senior nutrition programs — though the recent opportunities block contains no active solicitations specifically for oyster mushrooms. Instead, the code shows incidental activity through broader produce and grocery procurement focused on fresh fruits, vegetables, and specialty items delivered to schools, correctional facilities, senior centers, and child care agencies. The issuing bodies span school nutrition programs (elementary through high school districts), state criminal justice food service (Texas Department of Criminal Justice), Head Start child care networks, city senior services divisions, and board of education nutritional programs across multiple states. Work solicited under related produce and fresh vegetable codes emphasizes weekly or twice-weekly refrigerated delivery in case quantities, USDA compliance including Buy American requirements and HACCP food safety protocols, liability insurance in the $500,000 to $2 million range, and detailed traceability and food recall documentation. Evaluation typically weights cost heavily (30–50 points), product quality and availability (15–25 points), delivery reliability (10–20 points), and vendor qualifications including experience in institutional food service.

The geographic spread of recent activity centers on Georgia (Dougherty County, Bartow County, Glynn County, Douglas County, Bryan County, and Bulloch County school systems; Savannah-Chatham County Public Schools; Liberty County Board of Education), Texas (McAllen Independent School District, Austin Independent School District, Northside Independent School District, Hillsborough County Public Schools in Florida, and Texas Department of Criminal Justice), and scattered municipal activity in Connecticut and Missouri. Representative recent solicitations include Bartow County School System's Request for Proposal for local fresh fruits and vegetables (due June 22, 2026) with a 400-mile sourcing radius, Northside Independent School District's RFP 2026-048 for fresh produce child nutrition requiring five-day-per-week delivery across 117 campuses (due May 7, 2026), Hillsborough County Public Schools' USDA Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program solicitation for 18 elementary schools (RFP due March 11, 2026), Douglas County School System's cooperative buying RFP for fresh produce and eggs serving 30 school districts (due March 4, 2026), and the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's recurring commodity produce bids for carrots, white potatoes, and sweet potatoes for institutional canning. Contract terms typically run July 1 through June 30 with renewal options spanning up to five years. No oyster mushroom–specific opportunities appear in the recent block; vendors targeting this code should monitor produce line-item specifications within school nutrition and institutional food service RFPs where mushrooms appear as one component of broader vegetable procurement.