UNSPSC 50407011: Bean sprouts

The type of vegetable known as bean sprouts

UNSPSC 50407011 Bean sprouts, a Commodity code, sees limited recent activity in state and local procurement. The available opportunities show that state and local governments rarely solicit bean sprouts as a standalone item; instead, bean sprouts appear as one line item within much broader fresh produce or grocery procurement efforts. Madison Metropolitan School District's July 2026 RFB for fresh fruit and vegetable snacks under the USDA Fresh Fruit & Vegetable Program mentions produce in general but does not isolate bean sprouts. Head Start of Greater Dallas' June 2026 IFB for grocery products covers frozen foods, produce, and meat products across 32,409 estimated cases without breaking out sprouts specifically. State of Texas issued multiple IFBs in June 2026 for carrots, sweet potatoes, and white potatoes for institutional food service and correctional facilities, but bean sprouts do not appear in those or other named solicitations. Georgia school districts—Bartow County, Dougherty County, Bryan County, Glynn County, Liberty County, and Muscogee County—posted fresh produce bids between May and March 2026 covering dozens of line items but with no explicit bean sprout mentions in the summaries provided.

The issuing bodies acquiring fresh produce include state departments of criminal justice (Texas TDCJ), state education agencies (Georgia), school districts (Madison Metropolitan, Hillsborough County, Northside ISD, Salt Lake City, Meriden Public Schools, Austin ISD, Douglas County cooperative), early childhood programs (Head Start of Greater Dallas), senior services (City of San Antonio), and county school nutrition programs across Georgia, Texas, Missouri, Connecticut, and Utah. Geographic spread spans Texas, Georgia, Florida, Missouri, Utah, Connecticut, and other states. The opportunities indicate that produce procurement, including any sprout offerings, flows through school nutrition programs, institutional food service, and federally funded child and senior nutrition initiatives. Bean sprouts as a specific commodity does not surface as a material item in recent bid activity; when produce is procured, vendors typically bid a broad range of fresh vegetables and fruits on a line-item basis with unit pricing. Pursuit of this code at the commodity level is not supported by recent market activity. Vendors targeting institutional food service produce supply should focus on broader fresh vegetable and fruit families rather than bean sprouts in isolation.