UNSPSC 50407064: Water chestnuts

The type of vegetable known as water chestnuts

UNSPSC 50407064 Water chestnuts, a Commodity code, nominally describes a single produce item, but the recent state and local opportunities tagged under this code show little to no activity directly aligned with water chestnut procurement. The source contains one explicitly unrelated solicitation (a general fresh produce RFP from Georgia without issuing-body identification) and multiple opportunities for broader fresh produce categories, school nutrition staples, and institutional food service—apples, carrots, potatoes, berries, leafy greens, eggs, and mixed produce for school meals, corrections facilities, senior services, and child-care programs. The code shows no recent water chestnut–specific bids, and the handful of Georgia state and local produce solicitations tagged under it appear to be general produce buys into which the code was incorrectly applied by the issuing bodies' classification systems.

State and local procurement activity under this code is fragmentary and geographically dispersed across Texas, Georgia, Florida, Connecticut, and Missouri school districts, county boards of education, state departments (Texas Department of Criminal Justice, State of Georgia), and regional administrative entities (Hillsborough County Public Schools, Austin Independent School District). The overwhelming majority of recent volume goes to school nutrition programs (elementary through high school lunch and breakfast), followed by corrections-facility food service, Head Start child-care procurement, and one city senior-services produce-distribution contract. No repeat buyers appear under this specific code. The code itself lacks meaningful recent activity; businesses pursuing fresh-produce contracts should track the broader produce and fresh-vegetable commodity codes (such as those for carrots, potatoes, apples, or mixed fresh produce) rather than rely on water-chestnut classification, which does not reflect actual state and local procurement patterns.