UNSPSC 50407009: Banana leaves

The type of vegetable known as banana leaves

UNSPSC 50407009 Banana leaves is a Commodity code with minimal recent state and local procurement activity specifically tagged to this classification. The recent solicitations tagged to this code overwhelmingly focus on fresh produce procurement for school nutrition programs, child care food service, and institutional food operations, but the scope spans apples, bananas, carrots, potatoes, sweet potatoes, and mixed fresh fruits and vegetables — not banana leaves as a standalone product. Only one solicitation (Madison Metropolitan School District's RFB 4163, posted July 8, 2026) explicitly addresses fresh fruit and vegetable snacks for the USDA Fresh Fruit & Vegetable Program, requiring ready-to-eat, pre-processed produce with traceability documentation, organic preference pricing, and weekly delivery to elementary students; that opportunity carries a 5% preference for Wisconsin-certified diverse-owned vendors and runs September through November 2026 with optional three-month extensions. The other opportunities tagged to this code — Texas TDCJ procurements for white potatoes, sweet potatoes, and carrots for institutional canning and food service; Head Start of Greater Dallas grocery product bids; and multiple school district fresh produce awards across Georgia, Texas, Florida, and Missouri — show that this code in practice captures broad institutional fresh produce purchasing rather than specialty botanical products like banana leaves.

Issuing bodies soliciting under this code include school districts (Madison Metropolitan, Bartow County, Dougherty County, Bryan County, Northside Independent, Austin Independent, Salt Lake City, Meriden Public Schools, and many others across Georgia), state agencies (Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Texas Comptroller for TDCJ, State of Georgia), Head Start programs, school nutrition cooperatives, and county boards of education. Geographic activity concentrates heavily in Georgia (Bartow, Dougherty, Bryan, Bulloch, Henry, Glynn, Liberty, Muscogee, Savannah-Chatham counties), Texas (multiple TDCJ procurements, Austin ISD, McAllen ISD, Northside ISD), and Florida (Hillsborough County), with scattered activity in Wisconsin, Missouri, Utah, and Connecticut. The code shows no clear alignment with banana leaves specifically; the recent opportunities reveal institutional food service buying fresh produce in bulk for K-12 meal programs and criminal justice facilities, with typical RFP, RFQ, and IFB notice types, response dates from late February through July 2026, and evaluation criteria weighting price (30–50%), quality (15–25%), delivery capability (10–20%), and compliance documentation heavily. This code appears to be a miscellification issue — the commodity "banana leaves" does not match the solicitation content actually being posted under it.