UNSPSC 50405611: Yellow chile peppers

The variety of peppers known as yellow chile peppers

UNSPSC 50405611 Yellow chile peppers is a Commodity code that covers fresh chile peppers supplied to state and local institutions—primarily school districts and corrections departments—as standalone produce items or as components of broader food service procurement. Recent state and local solicitations show institutional buyers procuring yellow chiles as line items within comprehensive fresh produce contracts for school nutrition programs, child care centers, and correctional facility food service operations. Issuing bodies include school districts of varying sizes, Head Start programs, state corrections departments, and county school systems spread across Texas, Georgia, Florida, and other states. School districts dominate the activity, with recent opportunities reflecting weekly or seasonal delivery of produce to multiple school sites; correctional facilities and child nutrition programs represent secondary but material demand streams.

The code shows sparse recent direct activity specifically for yellow chile peppers. Three state and local opportunities reference chiles or peppers at all: the Madison Metropolitan School District's Fresh Fruit & Vegetable Program RFB 4163 (due Jul 29, 2026) soliciting ready-to-eat produce including peppers sourced within 400 miles of Wisconsin with 5% preference for diverse-owned vendors; the McAllen Independent School District RFP 2026-1029 (posted Mar 6, 2026) covering fresh produce including bell peppers across 31 campuses; and the Northside Independent School District RFP 2026-048 (due May 7, 2026) for USDA Child Nutrition Reimbursable fresh produce. Yellow chiles do not appear as named line items in the available recent solicitations; the code is tagged to broadly scoped produce RFPs where peppers are one category among 50+ produce types. Pursuit viability depends on whether you can commit to commodity-level pricing in high-volume institutional contracts where fresh peppers represent a small allocation of total produce volume. Geographic activity clusters in Texas and Georgia school procurement, with secondary activity in Florida, Missouri, and Connecticut. This code warrants watching rather than immediate pursuit unless your operation can absorb line-item pepper pricing within larger institutional produce distribution agreements.