UNSPSC 50456813: Frozen organic bittermelon

The type of organic vegetable known as organic bittermelon that has been frozen for preservation.

UNSPSC 50456813 Frozen organic bittermelon is a Commodity code that nominally identifies a single produce item, yet the recent state and local opportunities tagged under it reveal a sharp mismatch between the code's literal scope and actual procurement activity. The opportunities posted under this code encompass broad food service procurement across multiple commodity families—fresh produce, frozen foods, grocery staples, eggs, dairy, grains, condiments, meats, poultry, seafood, and non-food supplies—rather than frozen bittermelon specifically. School districts and state agencies are using this code to solicit comprehensive child nutrition and food service contracts that bear no meaningful relationship to a single frozen vegetable item. The work being bought spans the full range of school meal program provisioning, institutional food service supply, and ancillary kitchen products and disposables. Issuing bodies are predominantly school districts and boards of education—Early County Board of Education (Georgia), City Schools of Decatur (Georgia), Rockwood R-VI School District (Missouri), Savannah-Chatham County Public School System (Georgia), and Dallas Independent School District (Texas)—alongside state agencies such as the State of Georgia. The mix reflects a pattern of district-level child nutrition procurement and centralized state food service sourcing, with school districts appearing as the dominant buyer type in recent activity.

The geographic spread of recent activity centers on Georgia and Missouri, with Texas representing a secondary market. Representative recent opportunities include Early County Board of Education's line-by-line food bid (RFP, due June 8, 2026) seeking approximately 300-plus food items plus non-food supplies for the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs; City Schools of Decatur's IFB for frozen foods and grocery items (due May 15, 2026) covering frozen and grocery products for ten school sites; Rockwood R-VI School District's grocery items bid (electronic submission due April 29, 2026, Central Daylight Time) requesting over 900 line items across snacks, produce, dairy, meats, and prepared entrees; and Dallas ISD's RFP for various food products (due April 2, 2026) to supply the Maria Luna Food Service Facilities Warehouse with items not available through main commodity bids. The Douglas County School System issued a multi-district RFP for fresh produce and eggs (due March 4, 2026) serving 30 school districts across Georgia with estimated annual spending of approximately $4.4 million for Area One and $1.1 million for Area Two, as well as a main-line food service distributor RFP (due February 18, 2026) with estimated annual expenditure of approximately $9 million. The code shows no recent activity aligned with frozen bittermelon procurement and little relevant recent activity under the code's stated Commodity scope.