UNSPSC 50406402: Centennial sweet potatoes

The variety of sweet potatoes known as centennial sweet potatoes

UNSPSC 50406402 Centennial sweet potatoes is a Commodity code covering the procurement of sweet potatoes—a specific agricultural product—by state and local governments. State and local buyers soliciting under this code are acquiring fresh produce for institutional food service, including school nutrition programs, correctional facility cafeterias, senior services, and child care operations. Sweet potatoes appear as line items in broader fresh-produce and grocery solicitations and as standalone commodity procurements for bulk institutional supply.

Recent activity shows substantial issuing-body diversity across school districts, state departments of corrections, and county school systems, concentrated in Georgia and Texas. Solicitations include the Texas Department of Criminal Justice requesting 1,200 tons of carrots (bid IW241979-A, March 17, 2026) and sweet potatoes for canning (bid IW253121, June 23, 2026)—both ITBs via electronic portal submission; the Bulloch County School District seeking locally grown produce within 200 miles, including sweet potatoes at $2.00 per pound in historical pricing (RFP PE55612NONST2027000000031, May 4, 2026); and school districts across Georgia and Texas procuring fresh produce annually for child nutrition under RFPs and ITBs with delivery windows typically spanning July through June. Pricing in school nutrition contracts reflects per-pound or per-case structures, with evaluation emphasizing cost (30–50 percent weighting), product quality, on-time delivery, and compliance with USDA Buy American provisions. No current activity supports pursuit under the narrow commodity code itself; sweet potatoes appear only as embedded line items within larger produce or grocery bids, where they compete for award on a line-item basis within multi-item solicitations. The code shows little independent market signal—vendors pursuing state and local produce contracts should target the broader fresh-produce Family and Class codes where sweet potatoes feature as part of comprehensive institutional food-service procurement.