UNSPSC 50407015: Carob

The type of vegetable known as carob

UNSPSC 50407015 Carob, a Commodity code, does not align with the state and local procurement activity that has recently posted under it. The source contains no solicitations for carob or carob-based products. Instead, the tagged opportunities center on fresh produce procurement — fruits, vegetables, and eggs — for school nutrition programs, child care facilities, corrections departments, and senior services across multiple states. The mismatch between the code's nominal scope and the actual work being bought suggests the code sees little relevant recent activity, or that state and local procurement systems have misclassified the opportunities.

The recent opportunities do reveal a robust and fragmented market for fresh produce supply to institutional food service. School districts dominate the issuing-body mix — Northside Independent School District and Austin Independent School District in Texas, Savannah-Chatham County Public School System and multiple Georgia county and regional school systems, Hillsborough County Public Schools in Florida, Salt Lake City School District in Utah, Meriden Public Schools in Connecticut, and McAllen Independent School District in Texas all issued RFPs or IFBs for fresh produce between February and July 2026. State departments of criminal justice (Texas TDCJ) and Head Start agencies also procure produce at scale. The geographic spread is national, with solicitations active in Texas, Georgia, Florida, Connecticut, Utah, and Missouri. Representative opportunities include Northside ISD's RFP 2026-048 (May 7, 2026 deadline) seeking fresh produce delivery to all district campuses five days weekly during the school year; the Douglas County School System's RFP SN 26-004 through the GEC Buying Cooperative (March 4, 2026 deadline) for produce and eggs across 30 school districts with estimated annual spending of $5.5 million; and the Texas TDCJ's IFB IW241979-A (March 17, 2026 deadline) for 1,200 tons of carrots with a five-year Texas vendor set-aside preference. The category shows sustained demand but the code assignment appears erroneous, rendering this summary as a signal that UNSPSC 50407015 warrants reconciliation with actual procurement classification practices.