UNSPSC 50464621: Canned or jarred romaine lettuces

The variety of lettuce known as romaine lettuces that have been canned or jarred for preservation.

UNSPSC 50464621 Canned or jarred romaine lettuces (Commodity) represents a narrow product line within institutional food procurement, though the recent state and local opportunities block shows no direct solicitations for this specific item—the code's apparent application to broader food service contracts reflects a mismatch between the code's nominal scope and the work actually being bought. School districts, state health agencies, and state institutions dominate the food procurement landscape in the opportunities posted from February through June 2026, but they solicit across sprawling food categories (proteins, produce, dairy, grains, prepared entrees, condiments, and supplies) rather than isolating canned lettuces as a line item. When canned vegetables appear in these solicitations, they cluster with dozens of other commodity items in multi-hundred-line-item RFPs and IFBs—the Oregon Department of Corrections bid for canned tomatoes (approximately 7,616 cases, ITB S2910000016089, due February 9, 2026, and ITB S2910000017145, due June 19, 2026) and the Texas Health and Human Services Commission's supplemental food procurement (210 line items including canned goods, IFB HHS0016792, due February 23, 2026 and March 19, 2026) illustrate the pattern. Canned or jarred romaine lettuces, if procured at all under this code, would be a minor line item bundled into consolidated food service awards rather than a standalone contract opportunity.

Geographic activity concentrates in Georgia (Douglas County Schools, Burke County Schools, Liberty County Schools, Muscogee County Schools, Savannah-Chatham County Public School System, and the State of Georgia), Texas (HHSC, TDCJ, and local school districts), and Oregon (Department of Corrections), with secondary activity in Illinois (Veterans Homes), Missouri (Rockwood School District), and Virginia (Fairfax County Public Schools). The issuing-body mix is heavily weighted toward school districts and school nutrition programs, followed by state health and human services agencies and correctional departments. None of the recent opportunities explicitly name romaine lettuce procurement; instead, food solicitations address institutional meal service at scale—Fairfax County Public Schools' Master Grocery K-12 contract (45 elementary, middle, and high schools plus seven distribution kitchens, IFB 2000004323, due April 27, 2026), the Douglas County School System's food supply and distribution RFP for approximately 32,000 meals daily across 32 schools (RFP 26-003, due February 18, 2026), and Rockwood R-VI School District's grocery procurement for nearly 6,900 lunch and 900 breakfast participants (RFP due April 29, 2026). Business development professionals should treat this code as a passive marker within larger consolidated food service contracts rather than an active procurement category; winning work under 50464621 requires participation in broad-based school and institutional food bids where canned lettuces, if specified at all, represent a fractional line-item opportunity.