UNSPSC 50405900: Sea vegetables

The type of vegetable known as sea vegetables

UNSPSC 50405900 Sea vegetables is a Class code that shows no material recent activity in state and local procurement. The code nominally covers seaweed and marine plant products; however, the recent state and local contract opportunities tagged to this code overwhelmingly involve fresh terrestrial produce—apples, carrots, potatoes, lettuce, tomatoes, and other conventional fruits and vegetables for school nutrition programs, corrections facilities, and municipal food services. The sole partial exception is a Texas Department of Criminal Justice solicitation for canned sweet potatoes (IW253121), which involves processing rather than sea vegetables as raw input. The mismatch between the code's nominal scope and the work actually being procured suggests either persistent miscoding by issuing bodies or that this UNSPSC code is not the appropriate classifier for the opportunities listed.

School districts, county boards of education, state corrections agencies, and municipal nutrition programs across Georgia, Texas, Florida, Connecticut, Utah, and Missouri dominate the recent opportunity set. Representative recent activity includes Madison Metropolitan School District (Wisconsin) seeking fresh fruit and vegetable snacks for elementary students under RFB 4163 with bids due July 29, 2026; Head Start of Greater Dallas requesting frozen and fresh produce under IFB 26-GP with a total procurement value of $969,460.94; Bartow County School System (Georgia) seeking local fresh fruits and vegetables under RFP 10-2026-019 with bids due June 22, 2026; and Northside Independent School District (Texas) soliciting fresh produce for child nutrition under RFP 2026-048 with proposals due May 7, 2026. These opportunities consistently specify USDA compliance, HACCP certification, domestic sourcing where practical, delivery to multiple school sites, and contract terms of one to two years with renewal options. If your firm supplies terrestrial produce to institutional food service, tag these opportunities to a produce-family Class code (such as UNSPSC 50131600 Fresh vegetables) rather than to sea vegetables; the current coding appears unreliable for business development filtering.