UNSPSC 50414521: Organic romaine lettuces

The variety of organic lettuce known as organic romaine lettuces

UNSPSC 50414521 Organic romaine lettuces, a Commodity code, sees limited direct solicitation under this specific designation in recent state and local procurement. The code's nominal scope does not align closely with the actual buying patterns in the dataset—no recent opportunities explicitly solicit organic romaine lettuce as a standalone line item or primary contract focus. School districts, county boards of education, and independent school districts across Georgia, Texas, Florida, and Missouri are actively procuring fresh produce for child nutrition and school lunch programs through RFPs, RFQs, IFBs, and ITBs, but these solicitations typically cover broad produce categories (lettuce varieties, salad mixes, leafy greens, and vegetables generally) rather than organic romaine specifically. The buying pattern reflects institutional food service procurement bundled under Family-level or Class-level produce codes rather than at the Commodity tier.

State and local nutrition programs are the primary institutional buyers of fresh produce. Early County Board of Education (Georgia), Northside Independent School District (San Antonio, Texas), Hillsborough County Public Schools (Tampa, 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), Rockwood R-VI School District (Missouri), and Douglas County School System (Georgia, via GEC cooperative) have all posted IFBs, RFPs, and RFQs for fresh produce bundles running from July 1, 2026, through June 30, 2027, with response deadlines between early March and late June 2026. These opportunities emphasize compliance with USDA Buy American requirements, HACCP certification, product traceability, food safety documentation, temperature-controlled delivery to school sites between 6:00 AM and 2:30 PM on weekdays, and pricing indexed to USDA Agricultural Marketing Service reports. Organic certification and organic-specific sourcing are rarely mentioned in solicitation language; when present, they are secondary to cost, quality, and availability of conventional produce. The code shows minimal relevance to current state and local activity in this dataset.