UNSPSC 50406211: Space spinach

The variety of spinach known as space spinach

UNSPSC 50406211 Space spinach is a Commodity code that captures fresh produce procurement by state and local food-service operations — primarily institutional buyers (corrections and health-and-human-services agencies, school districts, senior-services programs) acquiring fresh fruits and vegetables for canteen, cafeteria, and congregate-meal operations. The code's scope, as evidenced by recent solicitations, spans fresh-produce supply contracts with specifications for delivery, quality, packaging, and temperature control, alongside frozen and prepared food items when bundled with produce in multi-category food-service buys. Issuing bodies include Texas Health and Human Services Commission (state institutional facilities), Texas Department of Criminal Justice (correctional institutions), state departments of mental health and corrections, county and municipal school districts, county parks departments, and Head Start and senior-services nonprofits operating under state or local frameworks. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice and Texas HHS Commission are repeat buyers posting multiple overlapping fresh-fruit-and-vegetable solicitations within the past four months.

Activity concentrates in Texas and Georgia, with secondary presence in Illinois, Wisconsin, and Florida. Texas dominates the recent-opportunity block with eight state-agency or institutional solicitations since late August 2026, including Texas HHS canteen-and-food-service groceries for Lufkin and Mexia State Supported Living Centers (IFBs due August 25 and posted August 4 and August 11), TDCJ fresh-fruit-and-vegetable deliveries to Snyder and Wynne Food Warehouses and Palestine (RFQs / IFBs due September 30 through October 19), and fresh-fruit-and-vegetable supply to Lufkin posted October 16 (IFB HHS0018082, due October 23, 2026). Georgia school districts (Bartow County, Dougherty County, Early County, Bryan County) have posted five RFBs and RFPs for fresh produce since May 11, all emphasizing local-farm sourcing within 400 miles and delivery to school warehouses or on-site locations. Illinois Department of Corrections (Joliet Treatment Center) and Illinois Department of Mental Health (Madden Mental Health Center) each posted small-purchase fresh-fruit-and-vegetable buys in August. Madison Metropolitan School District (Wisconsin) bid fresh-fruit-and-vegetable snacks in July with diversity preference, and Collier County (Florida) issued an Invitation to Negotiate for food-concession services at North Collier Regional Park in October.