UNSPSC 50445004: Frozen tomatillo

The variety of nightshades known as tomatillo that has been frozen for preservation.

UNSPSC 50445004 Frozen tomatillo (Commodity) does not map to active state and local procurement activity in the recent opportunities record. The code's narrow specification — a single frozen vegetable commodity — contrasts sharply with the scope of recently posted solicitations, which span broad food procurement categories for institutional feeding (schools, correctional facilities, state hospitals, state supported living centers, senior services) and typically include dozens to hundreds of line items across proteins, dairy, grains, fresh and frozen produce assortments, and paper products. The representative opportunities solicited under adjacent or parent codes name frozen vegetables generically — assorted blends, corn, mixed vegetables, potatoes, and green beans — but none specifically call for frozen tomatillo as a distinct line item or primary commodity. Oregon Department of Corrections, Texas Health and Human Services Commission, and state school districts are the dominant repeat buyers in the frozen-vegetable-procurement space, but their purchasing patterns aggregate commodity-level acquisitions into family or class-level solicitations rather than issuing category-specific calls for individual frozen items.

The geographic concentration of recent activity spans Texas (HHSC, TDCJ, school districts), Oregon (Department of Corrections), Georgia (Gwinnett County, school districts), Pennsylvania (Montgomery County), Illinois (Veterans Home), Connecticut (Bridgeport), and New Jersey (Department of Human Services), with Texas and Oregon accounting for the largest share of frozen-food solicitation volume. The code shows no recent dedicated opportunities; vendors pursuing frozen tomatillo sales to state and local entities would need to pursue broader family-level frozen-vegetable or food-service-grocery solicitations where tomatillo could be offered as a line-item alternative or specialty substitute where permitted by brand-or-equal clauses, or monitor parent codes (50445000 Frozen vegetables) and institutional food family codes for emerging demand signals.