UNSPSC 50406213: Wild spinach

The variety of spinach known as wild spinach

UNSPSC 50406213 Wild spinach (Commodity) covers leafy produce supplied fresh to school nutrition programs, child care facilities, correctional institutions, and senior services across state and local jurisdictions. Recent solicitations show state and local procurement offices buying fresh spinach and related greens as part of larger fresh-produce contracts serving institutional food service operations, including USDA Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program participation. The code reflects actual demand from school districts, county boards of education, state departments of criminal justice, and municipal senior services—not isolated spinach-only procurement but spinach as a line item within comprehensive produce contracts that also encompass carrots, potatoes, broccoli, lettuce, tomatoes, and seasonal fruit.

Issuing bodies include Georgia school districts (Bartow County, Dougherty County, Bryan County, Bulloch County, Glynn County, Liberty County, Muscogee County, Henry County, Savannah-Chatham County), Texas school districts (McAllen Independent School District, Northside Independent School District, Austin Independent School District), Florida school districts (Hillsborough County Public Schools), Missouri school districts (Rockwood R-VI), Connecticut school districts (Meriden Public Schools), the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, Head Start of Greater Dallas, and the City of San Antonio's Department of Human Services. School districts represent the dominant issuing body by volume, typically procuring through RFP or IFB with response deadlines in spring for July-June contracts. Recent activity clusters heavily in Georgia and Texas, with secondary activity in Florida, Connecticut, Missouri, and scattered procurement in other states. Representative recent solicitations include Bartow County School System's RFP 10-2026-019 for local fresh fruits and vegetables (proposal deadline June 22, 2026, sourced within 400 miles), Dougherty County Board of Education's sealed bid for fresh produce covering 40 line items including spinach variants (bids due June 16, 2026), Bryan County School Nutrition's sealed bid for fresh produce (due May 27, 2026), and the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's IFB IW253099 for white potatoes and IFB IW253121 for sweet potatoes (both due June 23, 2026). Most contracts run July through June with firm pricing for the initial term and potential price adjustment mechanisms tied to USDA Agricultural Marketing Service or Bureau of Labor Statistics indices. School districts frequently impose local-sourcing or within-miles-of-headquarters requirements and apply weighted evaluation criteria favoring cost (30–40%), product quality and availability (15–30%), delivery capability (10–25%), and vendor qualifications. Set-asides for small, minority, women-owned, and diverse-owned businesses appear selectively in Georgia and Texas jurisdictions but are not universal.