UNSPSC 50434603: Dried organic frisee lettuce

The variety of organic lettuce known as organic frisee lettuce that has been dried for preservation.

UNSPSC 50434603 Dried organic frisee lettuce is a Commodity code that sees minimal concrete activity in state and local procurement. Recent solicitations tagged with this code do not reflect procurement of dried organic frisee lettuce itself; instead, they capture broad food service contracting for school nutrition programs, correctional facilities, and child care operations where lettuce or produce may appear as one item among hundreds of line items in larger grocery or fresh-produce bundles. The code's nominal specificity — a single vegetable product — does not align with how state and local jurisdictions actually buy food. Most recent activity under the code involves school districts, state departments of corrections, state procurement divisions on behalf of criminal justice operations, and municipal child care programs issuing RFPs and IFBs for master grocery contracts, fresh produce assortments, and cafeteria food products spanning dozens to hundreds of line items at once, with individual vegetables negotiated as part of commodity pricing or market-index formulas rather than as standalone SKUs.

State and local procurement under this code concentrates in Texas, Georgia, Missouri, Oregon, and Virginia. The City of Edinburg, Texas, solicited CACFP meal program supplies (RFP 2026-017, due August 4, 2026) covering five supply categories including fresh vegetables; the Texas Department of Criminal Justice procured cafeteria food products across multiple warehouse locations (IFB 304T-26-300CF, extended to May 4, 2026); the State of Georgia issued fresh produce bids (IFB #4 2027-2026, due May 27, 2026); Fairfax County Public Schools (Virginia) requested Master Grocery K-12 supplies (IFB 2000004323, due April 27, 2026) for direct school delivery; Rockwood R-VI School District (Missouri) solicited grocery items for 2026–27 (IFB due April 29, 2026) with over 900 line items; and the Muscogee County School District (Georgia) and Savannah-Chatham County Public School System (Georgia) each bid fresh produce contracts in March–April 2026. The Oregon Department of Corrections issued two separate ITBs for dried pinto beans (March 2026 and June 2026), falling outside fresh-produce scope. Business development professionals should recognize that while the code title specifies a single dried-lettuce product, actual procurement demand flows through master grocery, fresh-produce, and institutional food-service contracts where individual produce items are negotiated as line items within much larger competitions.