UNSPSC 50413317: Organic midget cucumbers

The variety of organic cucumbers known as organic midget cucumbers

UNSPSC 50413317 Organic midget cucumbers is a Commodity-tier code that represents a narrow specialty produce line within school nutrition and institutional food service procurement. State and local governments procuring under this code are chiefly school districts and school nutrition programs seeking fresh produce for child nutrition services, including National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs. The recent solicitations show school districts treating organic and specialty produce items as components of broader fresh-produce contracts rather than as standalone line items; cucumbers appear alongside apples, carrots, broccoli, peppers, and other staple vegetables in multi-item RFPs and ITBs. Issuing bodies are predominantly school districts—ranging from small systems like Early County Board of Education and Liberty County Board of Education in Georgia to large urban districts like Northside Independent School District in San Antonio, Austin Independent School District in Texas, McAllen ISD in Texas, and Savannah-Chatham County Public Schools in Georgia. State purchasing departments also solicit fresh produce (Georgia issued multiple fresh-produce ITBs in spring 2026), though school districts dominate the volume. Organic product specifications and specialty items like pre-cut or value-added produce appear selectively in RFPs, signaling institutional interest in product differentiation and nutrition-focused sourcing, though conventional produce remains the procurement baseline.

Geographic activity concentrates in Georgia and Texas. Georgia school districts—Bulloch County, Liberty County, Glynn County, Muscogee County, Savannah-Chatham County, Early County, and Douglas County (through the GEC Buying Cooperative serving 30 districts)—posted the heaviest volume of produce solicitations between February and May 2026, with contract periods beginning July 1, 2026. Texas districts including Austin ISD, McAllen ISD, and Northside ISD in San Antonio posted comparable fresh-produce RFPs with March deadlines. Florida's Hillsborough County Public Schools solicited fresh produce for its federally funded Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program. Missouri's Rockwood R-VI School District sought grocery items including vegetables in April 2026. Representative opportunities include Early County Board of Education's RFP for line-by-line food bids (due June 8, 2026) encompassing 300+ food items with cucumber and vegetable line items; Northside ISD's RFP 2026-048 for fresh produce delivery to 127 campuses (due May 7, 2026) requiring USDA Child Nutrition Reimbursable compliance; Bulloch County's IFP for farm-to-school fresh produce grown within 200 miles of the district (due May 4, 2026); and Douglas County School System's cooperative RFP through GEC Buying Cooperative serving 30 districts with 72 produce line items and estimated annual spending of $5.5 million across two regions (due March 4, 2026). All contracts feature firm pricing for at least one year, delivery Monday through Friday during school hours, HACCP and food safety compliance, Buy American preferences, and renewal options for up to three additional years.