UNSPSC 50405902: Arame

The variety of sea vegetables known as arame

UNSPSC 50405902 Arame, a Commodity code, does not appear in active state and local procurement solicitations. The code nominally designates a single seaweed product, but the recent opportunities dataset shows no bids or contracts explicitly tagged to this code that involve arame procurement.

The dataset instead reflects heavy recent activity in fresh produce procurement across state education systems, county school nutrition programs, and institutional food service operations in Georgia, Texas, Florida, Connecticut, and Missouri. Solicitations under related produce codes (not this arame code) show school districts, state departments of criminal justice, and regional cooperatives actively bidding fresh fruits, vegetables, eggs, and specialty items through RFPs, RFQs, and IFBs. Madison Metropolitan School District (Wisconsin) sought fresh fruit and vegetable snacks under RFB 4163 (due July 29, 2026); Northside Independent School District (Texas) posted RFP 2026-048 for fresh produce (due May 7, 2026); and the Texas Department of Criminal Justice issued multiple IFBs for bulk white potatoes, carrots, and sweet potatoes for institutional canning and food service. The Douglas County School System in Georgia coordinated a cooperative RFP covering 30 school districts across two areas with approximately $5.5 million in estimated annual spend. None of these solicitations explicitly reference arame or seaweed products. If arame is part of a broader fresh-produce or specialty-foods package, it is not surfaced as a line item in any posted opportunity. Absent evidence of active procurement demand under this specific code, pursue only if a customer has flagged seaweed snacks or Asian specialty produce as part of a broader school nutrition or institutional food-service bid; otherwise, monitor the code for future state and local activity but allocate development resources to the active fresh-produce families showing consistent school nutrition and state institutional demand.