UNSPSC 50406204: Horenso spinach

The variety of spinach known as horenso spinach

UNSPSC 50406204 Horenso spinach is a Commodity code that does not see meaningful recent activity in state and local procurement. The code's nominal scope — spinach specifically identified as horenso variety — does not align with the actual procurement activity shown in recent state and local solicitations. When fresh produce appears in these opportunities, it is solicited as comprehensive fresh vegetable and fruit assortments, not as single-item commodity codes. The recent solicitations in the dataset — spanning school nutrition programs, criminal justice agency food service, and child nutrition centers across Texas, Georgia, Florida, Connecticut, and Missouri — all request broad produce categories including spinach as one line item among dozens (carrots, broccoli, lettuce, tomatoes, potatoes, apples, bananas, and eggs), not horenso spinach as a standalone procurement. School districts, state departments, and child care programs source produce through consolidated RFPs, RFQs, and ITBs that bundle multiple vegetable and fruit varieties and issue awards on a line-item basis to competing vendors.

State and local buyers doing business under fresh produce codes typically compete on cost-plus-fixed-fee or firm-unit-price models, require HACCP certification and food safety documentation, demand weekly or twice-weekly delivery to multiple school sites or institutional locations, and maintain insurance minimums of $500,000 to $2 million. Price adjustments are tied to USDA Agricultural Marketing Service terminal market reports or Consumer Price Index data on a six-month or annual basis. The code shows no evidence of recent horenso spinach–specific demand, and buyers pursuing opportunities in fresh produce more broadly should track the broader UNSPSC Family or Class codes under which comprehensive produce solicitations are tagged rather than attempt to compete on a single-variety commodity basis.