UNSPSC 50454116: Frozen organic papalo

The variety of organic herbs known as organic papalo that has been frozen for preservation.

UNSPSC 50454116 Frozen organic papalo, a Commodity code, covers specialty frozen produce items that state and local governments procure primarily as component inputs for institutional food service — school lunch programs, state hospital and residential care facilities, and correctional institutions. The recent activity under this code shows minimal direct solicitation for papalo specifically; instead, state and local buyers are posting broad grocery and produce RFQs and IFBs that encompass dozens or hundreds of line items, with frozen specialty produce embedded as one category among proteins, dairy, grains, and fresh items. State procurement offices (Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Texas Comptroller on behalf of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Illinois, Georgia), county and municipal school districts (Fairfax County Public Schools, Rockwood R-VI School District, Douglas County School System), and state-supported institutional facilities are the primary issuing bodies. These entities tend to consolidate food procurement into master grocery or supplemental food contracts with firm fixed pricing, broad line-item responsiveness thresholds (typically 95 percent minimum), and multiple renewal options spanning 18 to 60 months.

Recent activity concentrates in Texas, Georgia, Missouri, Illinois, and Virginia, with the largest opportunities in school district food service. Representative recent solicitations include the Texas Health and Human Services Commission's IFB HHS0017449 (posted June 11, 2026; due July 13, 2026) for food and consumable products serving the El Paso State Supported Living Center, and the Texas Comptroller's IFB 304T26300CF (posted May 4, 2026; extended to May 4, 2026) for cafeteria food products across five TDCJ warehouse regions, encompassing 382 line items with firm fixed pricing and FOB Destination delivery to multiple sites. Fairfax County Public Schools issued IFB 2000004323 (due April 27, 2026) for Master Grocery K-12 covering 76-plus items for 45 schools and seven distribution kitchens with weekly Monday-Friday deliveries. Rockwood R-VI School District in Missouri (posted March 31, 2026; due April 29, 2026) solicited over 900 grocery line items for 6,900 daily lunch participants, and Douglas County School System in Georgia issued RFP SN 26-003 (due February 18, 2026) seeking a main-line distributor for approximately $9 million annual food service covering 32,000 meals daily. None of the recent postings explicitly name papalo or frozen organic specialty items as standalone line items, suggesting that vendors compete on broader frozen-produce categories within these large consolidated tenders.