UNSPSC 50416303: Organic diane sweet potatoes

The variety of organic sweet potatoes known as organic diane sweet potatoes

UNSPSC 50416303 Organic diane sweet potatoes is a Commodity code that captures fresh produce procurement for state and local institutions, primarily school nutrition programs and centralized food service operations. Recent solicitations show school districts and county education systems buying fresh produce—including sweet potatoes alongside broader fruit and vegetable assortments—for child nutrition, school lunch, school breakfast, and federally funded fresh fruit and vegetable programs (FFVP). The scope spans weekly or bulk deliveries of produce items in specified pack sizes, often with USDA compliance requirements, HACCP certification mandates, Buy American provisions, and temperature-controlled delivery logistics. Issuing bodies are predominantly school districts (ranging from small county systems to large independent districts serving 20,000+ students) and county boards of education, with Georgia and Texas representing the heaviest recent activity. Procurement notices use RFP, RFQ, IFB, and ITB vehicles, with evaluation commonly weighted toward price (30–50%), product quality and availability, vendor experience, and long-term cost; awards are frequently made on a line-item basis to multiple vendors, and contracts typically run one fiscal year with renewal options.

Geographic concentration in Georgia reflects sustained demand across Douglas County (serving 30 school districts through the GEC Buying Cooperative with estimated annual spending of $4.4 million for Area One), Glynn County, Liberty County, Muscogee County, Bulloch County (emphasizing local farm-to-school models with 200-mile sourcing limits), and Savannah-Chatham County. Texas activity centers on large independent school districts in the San Antonio area (Northside ISD with 83 elementary, 21 middle, and 13 high schools) and Austin ISD, both with significant fresh-produce procurement for multiple campus food service locations. Hillsborough County Schools in Tampa, Florida operates a federally funded FFVP requiring specialty produce delivery to 18 elementary schools, with estimated annual budget of $600,000. Representative recent opportunities include the Douglas County School System RFP SN 26-004 (due March 4, 2026) procuring produce and eggs for 30 cooperating districts across two Georgia areas; Northside ISD RFP 2026-048 (due May 7, 2026) seeking fresh produce for child nutrition across all district campuses with evaluation weighted 35% on price and 25% on extent of goods meeting needs; and Bulloch County School District IFP (due May 4, 2026) seeking locally grown produce for a farm-to-school program with 24 produce line items including sweet potatoes, apples, citrus, and greens grown within 200 miles of the district.