UNSPSC 50405626: Long hot peppers

The variety of peppers known as long hot peppers

UNSPSC 50405626 Long hot peppers (Commodity) appears in state and local procurement primarily as a line item within broader fresh produce solicitations rather than as a standalone commodity, but the code sees steady activity across institutional food service, school nutrition, and corrections food service operations. Vendors pursuing this code supply long hot peppers as part of comprehensive fresh-produce contracts to state-supported living centers, correctional facilities, school districts, and senior services programs. The work encompasses specification-driven delivery of fresh peppers meeting USDA quality and grading standards, often with bi-weekly or weekly delivery schedules, F.O.B. Destination pricing, and strict compliance with food safety protocols including temperature maintenance, traceability documentation, and damage-replacement guarantees.

Texas Health and Human Services Commission, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, and Georgia and Illinois school districts and state mental health facilities dominate recent solicitation activity. The Texas HHS Commission has posted multiple IFBs for consumables and food service groceries at state-supported living centers in Lufkin and Mexia, with long hot peppers appearing as a line item within broader food service bundles (IFB HHS0017872, August 2026, and HHS0017799, August 2026). TDCJ has issued separate fresh fruit and vegetable RFPs for its prison food warehouses in Snyder, Wynne, and Palestine (IW267420, IW267411, IW267376, September–October 2026), where peppers constitute part of the produce mix. School districts in Georgia and Illinois, including Bartow County Schools and Dougherty County Board of Education, procure fresh produce bundles that include peppers, with sealed bids posted in May and June 2026. The Illinois Department of Corrections issued a small-business-set-aside RFQ for fresh produce delivery to Joliet Treatment Center (27426DOCJOLIEB53849, August 2026) specifying green bell peppers at 35–45 lbs per case among other items. Institutional food service procurement is concentrated in Texas, Georgia, and Illinois, with response deadlines clustering between May and October 2026 and contract terms typically running July 2026 through June 2027 or fiscal-year cycles. Long hot peppers as a specific commodity code see most explicit mention in TDCJ fresh-fruit-and-vegetable solicitations and school district produce RFPs, though quantified pepper-only demand is rarely disclosed separately in the summaries; vendors typically bid as part of a cooperative or primary produce supplier relationship covering 30–50+ produce line items per facility.