UNSPSC 50443401: Frozen arena cucumbers

The variety of cucumbers known as arena cucumbers that have been frozen for preservation.

UNSPSC 50443401 Frozen arena cucumbers (Commodity) does not align with recent state and local procurement activity. The code nominally describes a single frozen-vegetable product line, yet the recent opportunities tagged under this code span broad institutional food procurement — school nutrition programs, correctional facilities, state-supported living centers, senior services, and veterans homes — purchasing hundreds of food line items including proteins, dairy, canned goods, paper products, and kitchen supplies that fall outside frozen-cucumber scope. No recent solicitations actually specify arena cucumbers or even frozen cucumbers as a discrete commodity.

The issuing bodies are diverse: county purchasing offices (Gwinnett County, Montgomery County in Pennsylvania), state departments of corrections and human services (Oregon, Texas, Illinois), school districts (Bridgeport, Burke County, Early County in Georgia), and senior services departments. Activity concentrates in Texas, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Oregon, and Illinois, with scattered activity elsewhere. Representative recent opportunities include Gwinnett County's October 2026 IWQ for approximately 1,062 cases of shelf-stable food items (peanut butter, canned proteins, rice, pasta, soups, canned vegetables) due October 19, 2026; Oregon Department of Corrections' ITB for 360,000 pounds of frozen vegetables (broccoli, assorted blends, corn, green beans) due August 20, 2026; and Texas Health and Human Services Commission's IFB HHS0017338 for 106 line items of frozen food products including baked goods, entrees, proteins, and vegetables for state hospitals and living centers statewide, due August 18, 2026, with estimated annual volume of approximately $9 million. The code's recent activity reflects institutional bulk purchasing of commodity-class food and consumables, not a specialized frozen-vegetable product category, signaling a potential taxonomy mismatch between the code assignment and actual procurement scope.