UNSPSC 50407054: Spoonwart

The type of vegetable known as spoonwart

UNSPSC 50407054 Spoonwart is a Commodity code that captures fresh produce procurement—primarily fresh fruits and vegetables in ready-to-eat or minimally processed form—supplied to K–12 school nutrition programs, early-childhood care facilities, senior services, and state institutional food service operations. The code sees active, ongoing solicitation from school districts (the dominant buyer category), state departments of criminal justice, county boards of education, city and county senior services, and Head Start organizations. Procurement spans RFPs, RFQs, IFBs, and ITBs with response windows typically 30 to 60 days; recent examples include Madison Metropolitan School District's RFB for approximately 5,900 weekly servings of fresh fruit and vegetable snacks under USDA Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program funding (bids due July 29, 2026), Head Start of Greater Dallas's IFB for frozen and fresh produce to support Child and Adult Care Food Program requirements with a contract value of approximately $969,460.94 (bids due June 24, 2026), and Northside Independent School District's RFP for fresh produce to all 117 campuses across the San Antonio area, requiring five-day-per-week delivery with pricing indexed to USDA Specialty Crops Terminal Markets Standard Reports (proposals due May 7, 2026).

Issuing bodies include large and mid-sized school districts (Northside ISD in San Antonio, Savannah-Chatham County Schools in Georgia, Austin ISD, Meriden Public Schools in Connecticut, McAllen ISD in Texas) competing for vendor attention alongside county boards of education (Bartow County, Dougherty County, Glynn County, Henry County, Liberty County, Bryan County Schools in Georgia), the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, state-level procurement offices in Georgia and Texas, and municipal senior services (San Antonio Department of Human Services). Geographic activity concentrates in Texas, Georgia, Connecticut, and Florida, with recent activity also in Missouri. Many solicitations emphasize locally sourced or within-state produce (Wisconsin produce within 400 miles for Madison schools; Georgia local-farm preference for Bartow County; Texas-grown emphasis for NISD and McAllen ISD), compliance with USDA Buy American provisions, HACCP certification, and insurance minimums of $500,000 to $2,000,000 general liability. School districts dominate the buying pattern and often issue annual or multi-year contracts with renewal options; several permit line-item awards to multiple vendors and offer price escalation review at set intervals (typically six months) using published USDA Agricultural Marketing Service or Consumer Price Index data. No federal set-asides apply; some districts encourage or track small-business and minority-owned vendor participation as part of federal nutrition-program matching or accountability requirements.