UNSPSC 50405637: Tepin peppers

The variety of peppers known as tepin peppers

UNSPSC 50405637 Tepin peppers, a Commodity code, addresses the procurement of specialty pepper products by state and local agencies, though recent opportunities show the code sees minimal direct solicitation for tepin peppers specifically. Instead, state and local governments use this code tier to buy fresh produce generally—including fresh fruits, vegetables, and pepper varieties—as line items within broader food service and consumables procurement. Recent solicitations name peppers as one component among dozens of produce items ordered for institutional food service, school nutrition programs, and senior services.

Issuing bodies soliciting produce under or alongside this code span state departments of criminal justice, health and human services agencies, county school districts, city parks and recreation departments, and senior services divisions across Texas, Georgia, and Illinois. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice and the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (Lufkin and Mexia State Supported Living Centers) are repeat buyers, issuing multiple food service IFBs in recent months. School districts—including Madison Metropolitan (Wisconsin), Dougherty County (Georgia), Early County (Georgia), and Bryan County (Georgia)—solicit fresh produce regularly through sealed-bid and RFB processes. The Texas Comptroller, on behalf of TDCJ, issued a large multi-location cafeteria food products IFB (304T26300CF, due May 4, 2026) that included peppers and other vegetables across five warehouse locations. Activity concentrates in Texas and Georgia, with additional recent procurement in Illinois, Wisconsin, and Florida. Representative recent opportunities include the Texas HHS Commission's IFB HHS0018082 (Lufkin canteen consumables, due October 23, 2026) spanning 22 line items of prepared foods and supplies; the TDCJ's multiple fresh-fruit-and-vegetable RFPs (IW267376 for Palestine, IW267420 for Snyder Food Warehouse, IW267411 for Wynne Food Warehouse, and related solicitations, due September and October 2026); and school district RFBs including Dougherty County's sealed-bid fresh produce procurement (due June 16, 2026) covering 40 produce line items and Bartow County Schools' RFP for local fresh fruits and vegetables sourced within 400 miles (due June 22, 2026). These solicitations emphasize compliance with USDA grade standards, F.O.B. Destination delivery, firm pricing, and food safety certification—typical requirements for institutional food service. Tepin peppers do not appear as a named item in any recent opportunity reviewed; the code likely sees active use only when agencies specifically request this pepper variety, which current market data does not reflect.