UNSPSC 50445809: Frozen nori

The variety of sea vegetables known as nori that has been frozen for preservation.

UNSPSC 50445809 Frozen nori, a Commodity code, does not align with recent state and local procurement activity. The code nominally describes seaweed products, but the recent opportunities block contains no procurement of nori or similar specialty ingredients; instead, it catalogs school nutrition food bids, institutional feeding contracts for correctional facilities and health-and-human-services facilities, and fresh-produce procurement across multiple state and local jurisdictions. The mismatch between the code's product scope and the opportunities posted under it suggests either a data-entry error in how opportunities were tagged or that nori procurement is too narrow or infrequent to generate detectable recent activity in state and local contracting.

State and local government procurements in the opportunities dataset focus heavily on broad grocery and food-service categories—frozen and fresh produce, proteins, dairy, pantry staples, and related supplies—rather than specialty imported ingredients such as nori. School districts dominate the issuing-body mix, with significant activity from the Georgia school systems (Early County, Burke County, Bulloch County, City Schools of Decatur, Savannah-Chatham County, and Douglas County), Texas school districts (Dallas Independent School District, Rockwood R-VI), and Virginia (Fairfax County Public Schools). Correctional facilities and state health-and-human-services agencies account for the remainder (Oregon Department of Corrections, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Montgomery County Pennsylvania Correctional Facility, and New Jersey Department of Human Services). Recent activity spans Texas, Georgia, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Missouri, Connecticut, and Illinois. Representative solicitations include the Oregon Department of Corrections' ITB for 40,000 pounds of frozen corn (bid due July 24, 2026), Dallas Independent School District's RFP for various food products for the 2026–2027 school year (due April 2, 2026), and the Douglas County School System's RFP for fresh produce and eggs serving 30 districts across Georgia (due March 4, 2026, approximately $5.5 million). The code shows minimal practical relevance to current state and local procurement; if frozen seaweed products are needed, they are not being sought under this commodity designation.