UNSPSC 50413601: Organic cantino fennel

The variety of organic fennels known as organic cantino fennel

UNSPSC 50413601 Organic cantino fennel is a Commodity code that does not reflect recent state and local procurement activity. The code nominally designates a specific produce variety—organic fennel—yet the recent opportunities tagged under this code describe broad fresh produce and food service procurement for school nutrition programs, state operations, and institutional child nutrition services that encompass dozens to hundreds of line items spanning fruits, vegetables, eggs, dairy, meats, grains, and prepared foods. The mismatch between the narrow code definition and the scope of actual solicitations suggests either broad administrative tagging at the family or class level rather than commodity-level specificity, or procurement systems applying the code to food service categories that do not align with UNSPSC Commodity-tier precision.

School districts dominate the issuing bodies, with recent solicitations from Early County Board of Education (Georgia), Northside Independent School District (Texas), Hillsborough County Public Schools (Florida), Bulloch County School District (Georgia), Liberty County Board of Education (Georgia), Muscogee County School District (Georgia), Savannah-Chatham County Public School System (Georgia), Glynn County Board of Education (Georgia), McAllen Independent School District (Texas), Austin Independent School District (Texas), and Douglas County School System (Georgia serving 30 districts through a buying cooperative). Georgia and Texas account for the highest concentration of recent activity, with additional procurement from Florida and Missouri. State agencies also appear as buyers: the State of Georgia issued an Invitation for Bid for fresh produce (IFB #4 2027-2026, due May 27, 2026) and a broader food, supplies, and kitchen products solicitation (due June 22, 2026). Representative solicitations include Northside ISD's RFP 2026-048 for fresh produce delivery to 127 campuses across San Antonio (due May 7, 2026, RFP), Early County Schools' comprehensive food and non-food line-by-line bid for National School Lunch and Breakfast Programs (due June 8, 2026, IFB), and Hillsborough County Public Schools' cost-plus fixed-fee contract for specialty fruits and vegetables under the USDA Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program (due March 11, 2026, RFP, with estimated annual budget of $600,000). The scope across these opportunities emphasizes USDA compliance, Buy American provisions, food safety certifications including HACCP, delivery logistics to multiple sites within tight time windows, and domestic sourcing preferences, though the code itself does not reliably predict the actual commodity being procured in any single opportunity.