UNSPSC 50461918: Canned or jarred monaco beets

The variety of beets known as monaco beets that have been canned or jarred for preservation.

UNSPSC 50461918 Canned or jarred monaco beets (Commodity) represents a narrow food-service input that state and local procurement offices acquire as part of broader food supply solicitations for institutional kitchens, cafeterias, and dining facilities. The code appears rarely in standalone form; instead, canned beet products surface as line items within larger grocery, produce, or food-consumables procurements issued by school districts, state departments of corrections, state health and human services agencies, and veterans' homes. State and local buyers specify canned beets alongside dozens or hundreds of other canned vegetables, proteins, dairy, and staple items to meet USDA nutritional standards, Child Nutrition Program requirements, Buy American sourcing rules, and sodium-content caps typical of institutional food service. The issuing bodies are predominantly school nutrition programs (elementary through high schools), state supported living centers and hospitals under health and human services authority, correctional facilities, and state-operated veterans' homes. Representative procurements include Ben Hill County Schools (Georgia) IFB for food products with multiple canned-vegetable line items due June 15, 2026; Texas Health and Human Services Commission IFB HHS0017449 for the El Paso State Supported Living Center with food and consumables due July 13, 2026; and the Oregon Department of Corrections ITBs for canned tomatoes (a functionally similar product) with response deadlines in February and June 2026.

Recent activity concentrates in the South and across state institutional networks rather than in isolated geographic pockets. Georgia school districts (Ben Hill County, Liberty County, Muscogee County, Douglas County, Burke County, and Savannah-Chatham County) and Texas state health facilities dominate the recent-opportunities record, with additional solicitations from Oregon corrections, Illinois veterans' homes, and Missouri school districts. Canned-vegetable line items consistently appear in school-nutrition IFBs and RFPs with annual contract periods running July through June, firm fixed pricing for 12 months, and allowances for midterm price adjustments only when manufacturers increase prices by 5 percent or more with supporting documentation. Evaluation favors lowest responsive bid meeting specification, with awards made on a line-item or vendor-basis depending on the issuing body's procurement strategy. No set-aside designations for disadvantaged enterprises appear in the recent solicitations examined, and responses typically require compliance with Buy American provisions, USDA food-safety standards, debarment certification, and general liability insurance. This code segment shows steady transactional activity but operates as a component of larger food-supply contracts rather than as a standalone procurement vehicle, meaning pursuit depends on capability to bid competitively across 200–400+ line items rather than on single-item specialization.