UNSPSC 50455805: Frozen organic hijiki

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

UNSPSC 50455805 Frozen organic hijiki, a Commodity code, does not align with recent state and local procurement activity in the available source data. The code nominally describes a specific frozen seafood product, yet the recent opportunities posted under this code reflect broad school nutrition and food service procurement covering hundreds of line items across fresh produce, frozen foods, grocery staples, dairy, proteins, and prepared items—not the narrow product category the code name suggests. State and local governments buying under this code are primarily school districts and state agencies, including the Early County Board of Education, Rockwood R-VI School District, Savannah-Chatham County Public School System, Douglas County School System, City Schools of Decatur, Dallas Independent School District, and the State of Georgia. These issuing bodies solicit food service contracts through RFPs and IFBs to support child nutrition programs and institutional meal service across multiple schools and facilities.

Recent opportunities span Georgia, Missouri, and Texas, with particular concentration in Georgia school districts. Representative recent solicitations include Early County Board of Education's line-by-line food bid (due June 8, 2026) encompassing 300+ food items and 60+ non-food supplies for the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs; Rockwood R-VI School District's grocery items procurement (due April 29, 2026, CDT) covering over 900 line items across snacks, meats, prepared entrees, and dairy for approximately 6,900 daily lunch participants; and Douglas County School System's food supply and distribution RFP (due February 18, 2026) seeking a primary distributor to supply approximately 32,000 meals daily across 32 schools with an estimated annual expenditure of approximately $9,000,000. The code appears to carry misclassified opportunities; vendors pursuing work under this code should expect broad-based food service and nutrition supply categories rather than specialty frozen seafood items.