UNSPSC 50442002: Frozen broccoli romanesco

The variety of broccoli known as broccoli romanesco that have been frozen for preservation.

UNSPSC 50442002 Frozen broccoli romanesco is a Commodity code with virtually no recent state and local procurement activity. The code nominally describes a single frozen vegetable product, yet the opportunities posted under it span broader frozen vegetable and grocery procurement across correctional facilities, school districts, and state agencies—a significant mismatch that signals either systematic miscoding or the code's disuse in current state and local practice.

State and local buyers have solicited frozen vegetables under related codes with far greater frequency and volume. Oregon Department of Corrections has posted multiple ITBs for frozen corn, frozen assorted vegetables, frozen carrots, frozen broccoli, and frozen potato products (ITBs S2910000017451, S2910000017439, S2910000016589, S2910000016558, and S2910000016071), with response dates ranging from late February through late July 2026. Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Texas Health and Human Services Commission, and Georgia school districts have similarly issued solicitations for frozen vegetables as line items within broader food procurement RFPs and IFBs, but none specifically target frozen romanesco or single frozen-vegetable commodities. The Bridgeport Board of Education's grocery procurement (BNB052266, due June 30, 2026) and multiple school nutrition programs reference frozen vegetables generically rather than by specific varietal code. No recent opportunity explicitly names frozen broccoli romanesco as a distinct procurement line item, and the code shows no measurable current demand in state and local purchasing. The geographic concentration of frozen vegetable solicitations appears in Oregon (multiple ODOC ITBs), Texas (TDCJ and HHSC), and Georgia (school districts), but these are consistently broader grocery and frozen-food procurements rather than specialized commodity buys. The sourcing patterns observed in posted opportunities—where frozen vegetables are bundled into large institutional food-service contracts with response dates spanning months and annual values in the hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars—suggest that specialized frozen-vegetable codes like this one do not map to how state and local procurement offices structure or tag their actual buying activity. Unless your firm supplies frozen romanesco within a larger frozen-vegetable or commodity-food vehicle, pursuit under this specific code is not warranted.