UNSPSC 50467000: Canned or jarred kimchis

A type of food which is fermented and aged after preserving the vegetable, such as cabbage, radish, cucumber, pickled young radish, green onion, and others in salt and assort it with powdered red pepper, salt-fermented seafood and others.

UNSPSC 50467000 Canned or jarred kimchis is a Class code that nominally names a single preserved-vegetable commodity, but state and local procurement under the code does not align with that specificity. Recent opportunities solicited under this code actually request broad shelf-stable food procurement—including canned proteins, vegetables, fruits, soups, sauces, condiments, and institutional food service supplies—rather than kimchi specifically. Issuing bodies span state health and human services departments operating state-supported living centers and state hospitals, county governments procuring for senior services and social programs, school districts buying for nutrition programs, state departments of corrections, and specialized facilities like state psychiatric hospitals. Texas Health and Human Services Commission appears repeatedly, issuing multiple IFBs for consumable foods at Lufkin and El Paso state-supported living centers. The work involves procuring hundreds of line items of shelf-stable and refrigerated food products, often with brand-specific or approved-equivalent options, for institutional food service. Vendors typically respond to IFBs with firm fixed pricing on detailed pricing sheets, submit references and company qualifications, agree to F.O.B. Destination delivery within 7 to 72 hours of order, and comply with E-Verify, debarment certification, and often Buy American Act requirements for school and public-institution contracts.

Geographic activity concentrates in Texas, Georgia, and Oregon in recent postings. Texas Health and Human Services Commission issued IFB HHS0017449 for food and consumables at El Paso State Supported Living Center (due July 13, 2026, with historical annual spend of $1.5 million) and IFB HHS0018082 for consumables at Lufkin State Supported Living Center (due October 23, 2026), both requesting 20–22 line items of prepared foods and food service supplies. Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners in Georgia issued IWQ 140229 for approximately 1,062 cases of shelf-stable food items including peanut butter, jelly, canned proteins, rice, and vegetables (due October 19, 2026), while Ben Hill County Schools in Georgia and Burke County Public Schools in Georgia each solicited comprehensive school-nutrition food bids covering hundreds of line items with June 2026 deadlines. Oregon Department of Corrections issued IFB for approximately 7,616 cases of canned tomatoes meeting USDA Grade B or better (due June 19, 2026), and the State of Illinois and State of Georgia posted food procurements in June 2026. The code shows active, ongoing institutional food procurement across multiple states and issuing-body types, though the mismatch between the nominal commodity (kimchi) and actual solicitation scope (generic institutional food) suggests either miscoding in state systems or use of the code as a catch-all for shelf-stable food categories.