UNSPSC 50416304: Organic garnet sweet potatoes

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

UNSPSC 50416304 Organic garnet sweet potatoes is a Commodity code naming a single fresh-produce line item that state and local governments — primarily school districts and state procurement offices — source as part of broader food-service aggregations rather than as a standalone procurement. Recent solicitations do not isolate organic garnet sweet potatoes as a named or separately bid item; the code appears to function as a component within larger fresh-produce or child-nutrition categories that school nutrition programs and state agencies source through RFPs, RFQs, IFBs, and ITBs. Sweet potatoes do appear explicitly in the Bulloch County School District's Farm to School program RFP (posted April 3, 2026, due May 4, 2026), where they are listed among 24 locally-grown produce items required to support approximately 11,200 students across fourteen schools, with historical pricing data showing sweet potatoes at $2.00 per pound from the prior year. The broader context of recent activity shows school nutrition programs across Georgia, Texas, Missouri, and Florida soliciting comprehensive fresh-produce contracts that potentially encompass sweet potatoes among dozens or hundreds of line items, but organic garnet sweet potatoes specifically do not appear as a marked specification or award driver in publicly posted solicitations.

School districts dominate the issuing-body mix under this code's practical scope, with Early County Board of Education (Georgia), Bulloch County School District (Georgia), Northside Independent School District (Texas), Hillsborough County Public Schools (Florida), Rockwood R-VI School District (Missouri), 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), and Austin Independent School District (Texas) all posting produce-procurement notices in recent weeks. The State of Georgia and Douglas County School System (coordinating for a 30-district cooperative through the GEC Buying Cooperative) also appear as state-level or aggregated buyers. Geographic activity concentrates in Georgia and Texas, with secondary activity in Missouri and Florida. Representative recent opportunities include Bulloch County's IFP for Farm to School produce (May 4, 2026 due date, 24 items including sweet potatoes at historical $2.00/pound); Northside Independent School District's RFP 2026-048 for fresh produce with USDA Child Nutrition Reimbursable compliance (May 7, 2026 due date, award $1,200,000 estimated annual value not disclosed in source, contract July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2027); and the GEC cooperative RFP SN 26-004 covering 30 districts across two Georgia areas with approximately $4.4 million annual spending for Area One and $1.1 million for Area Two (March 4, 2026 due date, July 1, 2026 contract start). None of these solicitations isolates organic garnet sweet potatoes as a distinct procurement line or evaluation criterion.