UNSPSC 50444500: Frozen lentils

The type of vegetable known as lentils that has been frozen for preservation.

UNSPSC 50444500 Frozen lentils is a Class code that does not reflect the scope of work state and local governments are actually soliciting under this taxonomy designation. The recent opportunities tagged with this code include food procurement for correctional facilities, state supported living centers, school nutrition programs, and county senior services—covering broad categories of shelf-stable and frozen food products ranging from proteins and vegetables to dairy, grains, condiments, and paper products. These solicitations center on institutional food service supply rather than lentils specifically, indicating either a coding mismatch in the source systems or a code that serves as a catch-all for commodity food purchases that may include legumes only incidentally.

The issuing bodies span state departments (Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Oregon Department of Corrections, Illinois Chief Procurement Office, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, New Jersey Department of Human Services), county governments (Gwinnett County, Montgomery County Pennsylvania), municipalities (City of Bridgeport), and school districts (Ben Hill County Schools, Early County Board of Education, Burke County Public Schools, Bridgeport Board of Education). Texas agencies and Oregon corrections dominate recent activity, with multiple solicitations from HHSC for frozen and supplemental food products to state-operated facilities. Geographic activity concentrates in Texas, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Oregon, Illinois, New Jersey, and Connecticut, with Texas showing the heaviest volume. Representative recent opportunities include the Oregon Department of Corrections' frozen assorted vegetables ITB (S2910000017692, due August 20, 2026, seeking 360,000 pounds across broccoli, blends, corn, and green beans at FOB destination to Salem); the Texas HHSC frozen food products IFB (HHS0017338V1, due August 18, 2026, estimated annual volume $9 million across 106 line items for state hospitals and supported living centers statewide); Gwinnett County's informal written quote for approximately 1,062 cases of shelf-stable food items (PE77023NONST2027000000782, due October 19, 2026); and Burke County Public Schools' sealed bid for nearly 400 grocery line items (PE55037NONST2027000000007, due June 5, 2026, for five school facilities). Contract terms typically run one fiscal year with renewal or extension options, pricing is firm fixed unless adjusted against Consumer Price Index or USDA benchmarks, and delivery is FOB destination to individual facilities with weekly or as-needed cadence.