UNSPSC 50484617: Looseleaf lettuce purees

The variety of lettuce known as looseleaf lettuces which have been pureed.

UNSPSC 50484617 Looseleaf lettuce purees, a Commodity code, shows no recent state and local procurement activity aligned with the code's nominal scope. The recent opportunities posted under this code span food service supply across multiple institution types—state agencies, school districts, county departments, and correctional facilities—but the solicitations describe broad grocery and food product procurement (canned tomatoes, fresh produce, eggs, institutional food service) rather than specialty vegetable purees or processed lettuce products. Illinois Veterans Home and Texas Health and Human Services Commission sought quarterly and annual food supply contracts covering dozens of line items from proteins to condiments; Oregon Department of Corrections and multiple Georgia school districts issued competitive bids for canned tomatoes, fresh produce, and eggs; and Fairfax County Public Schools and several Missouri and Georgia school districts solicited master grocery contracts encompassing hundreds of items for K-12 nutrition programs. The code does not appear to capture actual procurement targeting looseleaf lettuce purees as a discrete commodity.

State and local buyers using broad food-service codes remain concentrated in school districts (Ben Hill County, Burke County, Liberty County, Muscogee County, Savannah-Chatham County, Fairfax County, Douglas County, and Rockwood R-VI in Missouri), state agencies (Illinois, Texas HHSC and DSHS, Oregon Department of Corrections), and regional education cooperatives (GEC Buying Cooperative serving 30 Georgia districts). Recent activity spans Texas (HHSC procurement with $4.5 million potential value over three years and TDCJ food products), Georgia (Douglas County RFP at approximately $9 million annual, multiple school district food bids), Missouri (Rockwood district grocery contracts), Oregon (ODOC tomato and produce procurements), and Illinois (Veterans Home weekly food orders). If your firm supplies specialty vegetable purees or processed lettuce products to institutional food service, monitor the broader Family and Class codes under which school nutrition and state institutional food procurement occurs rather than this specific Commodity code, which does not reflect current buying patterns for the product.