UNSPSC 50404902: Garlic mustard

The variety of mustard known as garlic mustard

UNSPSC 50404902 Garlic mustard is a Commodity code that sits at the base of the fresh-produce taxonomy but shows little alignment with actual state and local procurement activity. Recent opportunities tagged under this code overwhelmingly target mainstream fresh produce — apples, bananas, carrots, lettuce, tomatoes, and potatoes — procured by school districts, state agencies, and social-service organizations for child nutrition programs, senior services, and institutional food service. The narrowly specialized garlic mustard offering does not appear in any representative solicitation from the past three months; the code's application here appears to be a classification artifact rather than a reflection of what procurement offices are actually buying. State and local buyers in the fresh-produce space are organizing procurements by produce category (carrots, sweet potatoes, white potatoes) or by comprehensive fresh-produce line items spanning dozens of varieties, rather than by individual specialty greens. The issuing bodies running fresh-produce solicitations are predominantly school districts (Madison Metropolitan, Northside Independent, Savannah-Chatham County, Henry County, Glynn County, Bulloch County, Bryan County, Dougherty County, Liberty County, Muscogee County, Hillsborough County, McAllen Independent, Austin Independent, Meriden Public Schools) alongside state procurement offices (Texas Department of Criminal Justice, State of Georgia), regional cooperatives (Head Start of Greater Dallas, GEC Buying Cooperative), and municipal departments (San Antonio Human Services). No single issuer dominates; school nutrition programs drive the bulk of volume across Georgia, Texas, Florida, and Missouri through annual competitive procurement cycles.

Recent opportunities span Texas, Georgia, Florida, Connecticut, and Missouri with the heaviest concentration in Georgia and Texas. Representative solicitations include the Madison Metropolitan School District RFB 4163 (posted July 8, 2026, due July 29, 2026) seeking 5,900 weekly servings of ready-to-eat fresh fruit and vegetable snacks from local farms within 400 miles, with a five percent preference for diverse-owned vendors and a three-month contract term; the Northside Independent School District RFP 2026-048 (posted April 14, 2026, due May 7, 2026) for USDA-compliant fresh produce delivery to 117 school campuses five days weekly throughout the school year; the Texas Department of Criminal Justice IW241979-A (posted April 7, 2026, with bid opening March 17, 2026) for 1,200 tons of carrots meeting dimensional specifications; and the Hillsborough County Public Schools RFP (posted April 13, 2026, due March 11, 2026) for specialty fruits and vegetables under the federally funded USDA Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program serving eighteen elementary schools with a 600,000 dollar estimated annual budget. Pricing mechanisms vary widely — some solicitations use USDA market-index benchmarks with fixed markups or cost-plus models, while others request firm fixed unit pricing. Most school districts weight cost heavily (30–50 percent) in evaluation, require firm pricing for six to twelve months, and reserve the right to award to multiple vendors on a line-item basis. Buying patterns reflect meal-service scale: elementary and secondary schools order cases of 25–1,200 units per item monthly or seasonally, while criminal-justice system procurements consolidate institutional demand across multiple facilities into bulk quantities. No garlic mustard appears in any specification sheet or bid line item reviewed; the code's recent activity does not support a pursue recommendation.