UNSPSC 50406405: Georgia red sweet potatoes

The variety of sweet potatoes known as georgia red sweet potatoes

UNSPSC 50406405 Georgia red sweet potatoes is a Commodity code. State and local governments soliciting under this code are buying fresh produce—specifically sweet potatoes for institutional food service, school nutrition programs, and child care operations. Recent opportunities show school districts, state agencies, and specialized nutrition providers procuring sweet potatoes alongside broader fresh-produce portfolios, often as part of competitive sealed-bid or RFP processes for annual or multi-year meal supply contracts. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice has posted multiple dedicated sweet potato and carrot bids in the past four months, signaling regular institutional demand from correctional food service operations. School nutrition programs dominate the issuing-body mix: Georgia school districts (Bartow County, Bulloch County, Bryan County, Glynn County, Liberty County, Muscogee County, Dougherty County, Douglas County through a cooperative), Florida (Hillsborough County), Connecticut (Meriden), Texas (McAllen, Northside, Austin Independent School Districts), and Missouri (Rockwood) all solicit fresh produce as part of child nutrition contracts, often with locational or farm-of-origin traceability requirements. State procurement offices in Georgia and Texas also post for fresh produce, and specialized nutrition providers such as Head Start of Greater Dallas and the City of San Antonio's senior services division round out the buyer base.

Sweet potatoes appear in two distinct procurement contexts. First, school nutrition and child care programs buy fresh sweet potatoes for immediate service in meals or Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program distribution, with bids due April–July 2026 across multiple states. Second, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice solicits sweet potatoes explicitly for canning under IFB IW253121 (posted June 23, 2026; due June 23, 2026), indicating bulk institutional processing demand. Georgia shows the highest recent concentration of sweet-potato-relevant activity, with school district RFPs in Bartow County (due June 22, 2026), Bulloch County (due May 4, 2026, with historical pricing at $2.00 per pound for sweet potatoes), and a state-level fresh-produce IFB (IFB #4 2027-2026, due May 27, 2026) that likely encompasses sweet potatoes as a staple winter vegetable. Texas Department of Criminal Justice bids for sweet potatoes for canning (IW253121, due June 23, 2026) and the broader cafeteria-food procurement (IFB 304T-26-300CF, extended to May 4, 2026) signal ongoing demand from institutional corrections food service. Recent solicitations emphasize domestic sourcing preferences, compliance with USDA Buy American provisions, HACCP certification, farm-of-origin traceability, temperature-controlled delivery, and pricing indexed to USDA market reports or fixed on a per-pound or per-case basis with firm-price terms for 90 days to one year.