UNSPSC 50443413: Frozen karela cucumbers

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

UNSPSC 50443413 Frozen karela cucumbers is a Commodity code that does not see meaningful recent activity in state and local procurement. The recent opportunities block contains no solicitations for frozen karela or any similar specialty frozen vegetable varieties. Instead, state and local procurement offices issuing under this code are buying generic frozen vegetable commodities — notably frozen corn, frozen assorted vegetable blends, frozen carrots, and mixed frozen vegetables — distributed through correctional facilities, school nutrition programs, and human services agencies. The issuing bodies are primarily state departments (Oregon Department of Corrections, Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Texas Department of Criminal Justice), school districts (Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia, multiple Georgia districts, Dallas ISD in Texas), and county correctional facilities (Montgomery County, Pennsylvania). Frozen vegetable procurement spans RFPs, RFQs, IFBs, and ITBs with response dates typically 30 to 60 days from posting. Buy American Act provisions apply to school lunch procurements; state vendor preferences (Oregon's 5–10 percent preference for in-state goods and processors) appear in correctional and state agency solicitations. Pricing is nearly always per-pound or per-case on an all-inclusive, FOB-destination basis.

State and local procurement activity in frozen vegetables concentrates in Oregon (where the Oregon Department of Corrections has issued multiple ITBs for frozen corn, carrots, and assorted blends through July 2026), Texas (school districts, TDCJ, and HHSC), and Georgia (school systems across multiple counties). Representative recent opportunities include the Oregon Department of Corrections' July 2026 ITB for 40,000 pounds of frozen sweet corn at approximately $0.498 per pound (posted July 10, 2026, due July 24, 2026), the Texas Health and Human Services Commission's IFB HHS0017449 for food and consumables to supply the El Paso State Supported Living Center with a historical annual value of $1.5 million (posted June 11, 2026, due July 13, 2026), and Fairfax County Public Schools' Master Grocery K-12 IFB 2000004323 requiring weekly deliveries to 45 schools and seven distribution kitchens (posted April 6, 2026, due April 27, 2026). The code shows active demand for commodity frozen vegetables but no documented recent procurement volume for the specialized karela cucumber variety.