UNSPSC 50446401: Frozen ailsa craig tomatoes

The variety of tomatoes known as ailsa craig tomatoes that have been frozen for preservation.

UNSPSC 50446401 Frozen ailsa craig tomatoes is a Commodity code, but the recent state and local contract opportunities posted under this code show little activity directly aligned with the product name. Of the 26 recent solicitations tagged to this code or its parent families, none explicitly seek frozen Ailsa Craig tomatoes by variety; instead, the opportunities span broader frozen vegetable procurement, fresh produce, and comprehensive food service supply contracts for correctional facilities, school districts, and health and human services agencies. The code appears to reflect a granular product taxonomy that procurement offices do not routinely match to actual buying activity—frozen vegetables are typically solicited as assorted blends, mixed varieties, or commodity categories rather than by specific heirloom tomato cultivar.

The issuing bodies soliciting under the broader frozen-vegetable and food-service categories that house this code include state departments (Oregon Department of Corrections, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Texas Health and Human Services Commission, state of Georgia, state of Illinois, state of New Jersey), county and municipal correctional facilities (Montgomery County, Pennsylvania; Bridgeport, Connecticut), school districts (Fairfax County Public Schools Virginia; Savannah-Chatham County Georgia; Early County Georgia; Burke County Georgia; Decatur Georgia; Rockwood R-VI Missouri; Ben Hill County Georgia; Dallas ISD Texas; Bulloch County Georgia), and health and human services facilities. Oregon Department of Corrections, Texas TDCJ, and Texas HHSC appear most frequently, each issuing multiple food-procurement ITBs and IFBs in the source period. Geographic concentration is evident in Texas (TDCJ, HHSC, Dallas ISD), Georgia (multiple school districts and state procurements), Oregon (ODOC multiple frozen-vegetable solicitations), and the Mid-Atlantic (Montgomery County Pennsylvania, Connecticut). Representative recent solicitations include the Oregon Department of Corrections' frozen corn ITB (S2910000017451, due July 24, 2026) and frozen potato products ITB (S2910000017439, due July 24, 2026), both specifying FOB destination delivery to Salem with Oregon vendor preferences; the City of Bridgeport Board of Education's grocery procurement (BNB052266, due June 30, 2026) spanning 1,100+ line items for the National School Lunch Program; and Texas HHSC's supplemental food and consumables IFB (HHS0017449, due July 13, 2026) covering food and consumable products for state-supported living centers with a historical value of $1.5 million. None of these solicitations reference Ailsa Craig tomatoes specifically, indicating that the code's narrow product scope does not drive current procurement action.