UNSPSC 50441513: Frozen violetto di toscana artichokes

The variety of artichokes known as violetto di toscana artichokes that have been frozen for preservation.

UNSPSC 50441513 Frozen violetto di toscana artichokes, a Commodity code, does not appear in recent state and local procurement activity. The recent opportunities block contains no solicitations for this specific frozen artichoke variety; instead, the tagged opportunities span broad food procurement for institutional feeding — school nutrition programs, correctional facilities, state supported living centers, and senior services — across grocery staples, frozen mixed vegetables, frozen proteins, dairy, condiments, and paper products. The mismatch between the code's narrow commodity scope and the generic institutional food purchasing actually happening suggests either a classification error in the source data or minimal real-world procurement volume under this specific UNSPSC designation.

State and local buyers in the recent opportunities are primarily school districts (Bridgeport, Early County, Burke County in Georgia, Ben Hill County in Georgia), county correctional facilities (Gwinnett County Georgia, Montgomery County Pennsylvania), state departments (Texas HHSC, Texas Department of Corrections, Oregon Department of Corrections, Illinois, New Jersey, Georgia), and state supported living centers across Texas. These jurisdictions solicit food procurement through RFQ, IFB, and ITB notices posted May through October 2026, with response dates clustering June through September. Geographic activity spans Texas (highest concentration with multiple HHSC and TDCJ solicitations), Oregon, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Illinois, Connecticut, and New Jersey. Representative recent opportunities include Gwinnett County's October 2026 RFQ for approximately 1,062 cases of shelf-stable food items (response due October 19, 2026), Montgomery County Pennsylvania's September 2026 IFB for groceries, meats, cereals, and paper products for the correctional facility (response due September 30, 2026 and July 1, 2026 for later periods), and Texas HHSC's August 2026 IFB for frozen food products totaling approximately $9 million estimated annual volume across state hospitals and supported living centers statewide (response due August 18, 2026). No identified solicitation targets frozen violetto di toscana artichokes specifically.