UNSPSC 50444112: Frozen lemon grass

The variety of herbs known as lemon grass that has been frozen for preservation.

UNSPSC 50444112 Frozen lemon grass is a Commodity code that nominally designates a single produce item, but the recent state and local procurement activity under this code shows minimal direct solicitation for the product itself. Instead, the code appears in broader food procurement records where it sits as one item among dozens or hundreds in consolidated food-service RFPs and IFBs. State and local governments use this code primarily when tagging multi-line food contracts that include frozen or fresh produce among other kitchen and food-service consumables. The issuing bodies are state health agencies, state purchasing offices, and school districts procuring for cafeteria operations, institutional food service, and campus dining programs. The work being solicited is the supply of food and consumable products under consolidated contracts that bundle produce, proteins, staples, supplies, and related items into single awards or multi-vendor line-item awards rather than sourcing frozen lemon grass as a standalone line item.

Recent activity concentrates in Georgia and Texas. The Texas Health and Human Services Commission issued IFB HHS0017449 in June 2026 for food and consumable products supplying the HHSC El Paso State Supported Living Center, with a response deadline of July 13, 2026, and a prior-period monetary value of $1.5 million; the State of Georgia posted a food, supplies, and other kitchen products IFB (PE55645NONST2026000000009) in May 2026 with a June 22, 2026 response deadline. The Douglas County School System in Georgia issued two RFPs under a GEC cooperative purchasing vehicle: SN 26-004 for fresh produce and eggs across 30 school districts with estimated annual spending of $4.4 million for Area One and $1.1 million for Area Two (response deadline March 4, 2026), and SN 26-003 for food supply and distribution serving approximately 32,000 meals daily with estimated annual expenditure of approximately $9 million (response deadline February 18, 2026). None of these solicitations target frozen lemon grass as a discrete line item; the code assignment appears incidental to the broader commodity classification of the contracts themselves.