UNSPSC 50442609: Frozen purple cape cauliflowers

The variety of cauliflower known as purple cape cauliflowers that has been frozen for preservation.

UNSPSC 50442609 Frozen purple cape cauliflowers is a Commodity code that does not reflect the actual purchasing activity visible in recent state and local solicitations. The code's narrow product specification—a single frozen vegetable variety—does not align with the broad institutional food procurement that dominates state and local contracting under this code's nominal family (50442000 Frozen vegetables). In practice, state and local governments buy mixed frozen vegetable assortments, corn, green beans, broccoli, assorted blends, and potato products (french fries, wedges) for correctional facilities, state hospitals, state supported living centers, schools, senior services, and veterans' homes. When frozen vegetables are solicited individually, they are typically purchased in high volume—360,000 pounds of assorted frozen vegetables for Oregon's Department of Corrections, 120,000 pounds of frozen potato products for the same agency, and 40,000 pounds of frozen corn—rather than as specialty items. The issuing bodies are predominantly state corrections departments, state health and human services agencies, state departments of transportation operating institutional feeding programs, county correctional facilities, and school districts supplying child nutrition programs.

Recent activity is concentrated in Oregon, Texas, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Connecticut, and New Jersey, with the heaviest recent volume from Oregon's Department of Corrections and the Texas Health and Human Services Commission. Representative recent opportunities include the Oregon Department of Corrections' ITB for 360,000 pounds of assorted frozen vegetables (broccoli, corn, green beans, assorted blends) due August 20, 2026, with Oregon vendor preferences up to 10 percent; the Texas Health and Human Services Commission's IFB HHS0017338 for 106 line items of frozen food products serving multiple state hospitals and supported living centers statewide, with estimated annual volume of approximately $9 million and bids due August 18, 2026; Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners' informal written quotation for approximately 1,062 cases of shelf-stable and frozen food items due October 19, 2026; and the State of Oregon's ITB for frozen corn (40,000 pounds) and frozen potato products (120,000 pounds) both due July 24, 2026, with Oregon processing and resident-bidder preferences available. The code shows no recent activity specifically for purple cape cauliflower, indicating either misclassification of opportunities or minimal purchasing under this commodity's literal product scope.