UNSPSC 50406712: Hubbard squash

The variety of winter squashes and winter pumpkins known as hubbard squash

UNSPSC 50406712 Hubbard squash, a Commodity code, sees active state and local procurement centered on fresh produce supply for school nutrition programs, senior services, and institutional food operations — work that spans elementary through high school campuses, county school districts, state agencies, and specialized child nutrition providers. Recent solicitations show school districts procuring fresh produce under RFPs and IFBs with weekly or biweekly delivery requirements, HACCP compliance, and traceability documentation. The issuing bodies are predominantly school districts and school nutrition programs (elementary districts in Georgia, Texas, Florida, and Missouri; county systems in Georgia; independent districts in Texas), supplemented by state purchasing offices (Texas TDCJ, State of Georgia), Head Start organizations, and municipal senior services divisions. A smaller subset involves institutional food service for corrections facilities. Evaluation typically weights cost heavily (30–50 percent), with product quality, delivery reliability, and compliance with USDA domestic-sourcing and food-safety standards as secondary factors. Cooperative purchasing vehicles such as the GEC Buying Cooperative enable regional bundling across multiple school districts, and localization preferences appear frequently — some solicitations restrict sourcing to produce grown within 400 miles or 200 miles of the school system.

Geographic concentration is strongest in Georgia and Texas, where recent school nutrition, state criminal-justice, and cooperative purchasing solicitations substantially outnumber other states. Georgia school districts (Bartow County, Dougherty County, Bryan County, Bulloch County, Glynn County, Liberty County, Muscogee County, Savannah-Chatham, Henry County, and Douglas County systems) have issued at least 13 recent RFPs and IFBs for fresh produce or produce-inclusive grocery contracts; Texas TDCJ has posted multiple root-vegetable bids (carrots, sweet potatoes, white potatoes) and institutional cafeteria food solicitations. Florida (Hillsborough County and broader state), Texas (NISD, McAllen ISD, Austin ISD, TDCJ), Missouri (Rockwood R-VI), Connecticut (Meriden), and Georgia show secondary activity. Representative recent opportunities include Dougherty County Board of Education's sealed-bid fresh-produce procurement (40 line items including apples, bananas, broccoli, carrots, lettuce, oranges, potatoes, strawberries, tomatoes; bids due June 16, 2026, IFB); Northside Independent School District (NISD) in San Antonio's RFP for fresh produce to 117 campus locations statewide (RFP 2026-048, due May 7, 2026); Bartow County School System's local fresh fruits and vegetables procurement (400-mile sourcing radius, RFP 10-2026-019, due June 22, 2026); Texas TDCJ's bulk carrots bid at 1,200 tons (IFB IW241979-A, due March 17, 2026); and Hillsborough County Public Schools' Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program produce delivery (18 elementary schools, cost-plus fixed-fee model, proposals due March 11, 2026). School nutrition budgets often range from $600,000 to over $4 million annually for produce-inclusive contracts, with payment terms typically Net 30–Net 40 and automatic renewal options common.