UNSPSC 50405905: Hijiki

The variety of sea vegetables known as hijiki

UNSPSC 50405905 Hijiki is a Commodity code that sees little relevant recent activity in state and local procurement. The code nominally addresses a specific seaweed product, but the recent opportunities tagged under it reflect procurement for fresh produce, fresh fruits and vegetables, and related food service items that fall outside hijiki's scope. State and local issuing bodies—school districts, county boards of education, state departments, and child nutrition programs—are pursuing fresh produce contracts at scale, but none of the recent solicitations name hijiki or seaweed-based products as line items.

The geographic footprint of recent activity spans multiple states, with concentrated procurement in Georgia (Bartow County Schools, Dougherty County Board of Education, Bulloch County Schools, Glynn County Schools, Liberty County Schools, Muscogee County Schools, Savannah-Chatham County Public Schools, and Douglas County Schools), Texas (TDCJ, McAllen ISD, Northside ISD, Austin ISD), Florida (Hillsborough County Public Schools), and Connecticut (Meriden Public Schools), alongside isolated solicitations in Missouri (Rockwood R-VI School District) and Wisconsin (Madison Metropolitan School District). Representative opportunities include the Madison Metropolitan School District's RFB 4163 for fresh fruit and vegetable snacks (response due July 29, 2026), Head Start of Greater Dallas IFB 26-GP for grocery products including frozen foods and produce (bids due June 24, 2026), and the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's recurring IFBs for carrots, sweet potatoes, and white potatoes for institutional food service. The code shows no meaningful procurement signal for hijiki itself; vendors should treat this code as inactive for business development purposes and investigate the actual commodity codes under which seaweed or specialty Asian produce items are solicited.