UNSPSC 50407036: Lily bulb

The type of vegetable known as lily bulb

UNSPSC 50407036 Lily bulb (Commodity) does not map to the state and local procurement activity currently visible in recent solicitations. The opportunities posted under or near this code span school nutrition, corrections food service, and senior services procurement—and they name fresh produce, vegetables, fruits, eggs, and comprehensive grocery items as the actual goods being sought. The code's nominal scope (lily bulbs, a cut-flower bulb variety) bears no relationship to the institutions buying or the work being solicited. State and local procurement systems appear to have tagged fresh-produce and institutional-food-service RFPs with a bulb code, creating a classification mismatch rather than a genuine commodity category in active use.

Recent opportunities show school districts (Madison Metropolitan School District in Wisconsin; Bartow County, Dougherty County, Glynn County, Bryan County, Liberty County, Muscogee County, Bulloch County, Henry County, Savannah-Chatham County, and Early County in Georgia; Hillsborough County and Northside Independent School District in Florida and Texas respectively), corrections agencies (Texas Department of Criminal Justice in multiple canning and bulk-purchase IFBs), Head Start programs (Head Start of Greater Dallas), senior services (City of San Antonio), and a Connecticut municipal school district actively procuring fresh fruits, vegetables, and produce through RFPs and IFBs with response dates spanning February through July 2026. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice has issued several recent carrot and potato bids. Geographic concentration is heaviest in Georgia (at least 10 school districts) and Texas (multiple TDCJ procurements, school districts including Austin ISD, Northside ISD, McAllen ISD); Florida, Wisconsin, Connecticut, Missouri, and other states show lower but active volumes. The code shows substantial recent procurement activity in fresh produce, but none of it involves lily bulbs or any horticultural commodity matching the UNSPSC code name. For business development purposes, this code is not actionable; pursue actual fresh-produce codes or institutional-food-service codes instead.