UNSPSC 50464122: Canned or jarred salsify

The variety of herbs known as salsify that has been canned or jarred for preservation.

UNSPSC 50464122 Canned or jarred salsify (Commodity) represents a narrow product class within state and local food procurement, though recent solicitations show the code is applied inconsistently to broader food-service contracts that span dozens of commodity categories well beyond salsify alone. State and local buyers soliciting under this code are primarily Texas state agencies—the Health and Human Services Commission and the Department of State Health Services—along with Georgia state procurement, Illinois state procurement, and county-level food-service operations such as Gwinnett County, Georgia. The work being bought encompasses shelf-stable canned and jarred vegetables, proteins, dairy, grains, condiments, and consumable serviceware for state-supported living centers, correctional facilities, senior services, and institutional dining operations. Solicitations consistently require firm fixed unit pricing, strict specification adherence with no substitutions unless explicitly approved as equivalent, delivery within specified windows (typically 7:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. on scheduled dates), and compliance with USDA and FDA standards; vendors typically bear delivery, storage, handling, and overtime costs, and must maintain warranty and complaint resolution protocols with response and remediation timelines ranging from 72 hours to 90 days.

Recent activity concentrates in Texas and Georgia, with Texas Health and Human Services Commission managing multiple concurrent IFBs for different state-supported living centers and statewide supplemental food procurement. The Texas Comptroller issued IFB 304T-26-300CF for cafeteria food products supplying Department of Criminal Justice warehouse locations across five geographic regions, with 382 line items and responses due May 4, 2026 (single occurrence of this extremely tight window). Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners solicited approximately 1,062 cases of food items for the Department of Community Services under IWQ 140229 with an RFQ due date of October 19, 2026. Texas HHSC issued separate IFBs for Mexia State Supported Living Center (HHS0017798 and HHS0017799, both due August 25, 2026) and El Paso State Supported Living Center (HHS0017449, due July 13, 2026), with historical monetary values ranging from $158,000 to $1.5 million annually depending on facility and scope. Contracts typically run one to three years with renewal or extension options at the procuring agency's discretion. Vendors should note that HHSC contracts explicitly reserve the right to adjust pricing based on Consumer Price Index formulas, require best-value rather than lowest-price evaluation, and utilize a Vendor Performance Tracking System to assess past performance alongside specification compliance and price.