UNSPSC 50414002: Organic bay leaves

The variety of organic herbs known as organic bay leaves

UNSPSC 50414002 Organic bay leaves, a Commodity code, does not reflect meaningful recent state and local procurement activity. The code appears in the dataset but no recent state and local opportunities specifically solicit organic bay leaves as a line item. The most-recent-opportunities block shows procurement of shelf-stable food products, fresh and frozen groceries, canteen items, and bulk food service supplies across multiple states and institutional purchasers, but none of the opportunities name organic bay leaves or any spice category as a discrete procurement objective. The opportunities instead bundle bay leaves, if present at all, within broader food-supply line-item portfolios managed by larger food-service vendors or wholesale distributors supplying state institutions, counties, and special-purpose facilities.

State and local buyers purchasing under related food-commodity codes acquire grocery items through a mix of county purchasing offices, state health and human services commissions, state comptroller procurement divisions, and school or institutional food-service operations. Recent activity concentrates in Texas (Health and Human Services Commission procurements for state supported living centers at Mexia and El Paso, and Texas Department of Criminal Justice cafeteria products via the Comptroller's Statewide Procurement Division), Georgia (county and state purchases), and Illinois (state institutional food orders). Opportunities are structured as IFBs with firm fixed unit pricing, typically emphasize brand-specific or equivalent substitution, and require 90–95 percent line-item coverage; representative examples include the Texas HHSC supplemental food and consumables IFB HHS0016792V2 (posted May 19, 2026, $4.5 million potential value over three years), the TDCJ cafeteria food products IFB 304T26300CF (posted May 4, 2026, serving six distribution points across Texas), and the Gwinnett County informal written quote for 1,062 cases of shelf-stable food items (posted October 13, 2026, due October 19, 2026). The code warrants a skip for vendors focusing on discrete spice or seasoning sales; pursuit makes sense only for food distributors holding state and local food-service contracts who can bundle organic bay leaves within larger grocery-supply responses.