UNSPSC 50581783: Non GMO beneke avocados

This is the Non Gmo version of Beneke Avocados. The Beneke Avocado is grown and distributed in the Dominican Republic, The Beneke is similar to a more typical green-skin avocado-it has a smoother texture, less oil and it turns red-black as it ripens.

UNSPSC 50581783 Non GMO Beneke Avocados, a Commodity code, represents a narrow produce item within state and local food service procurement—specifically avocados meeting non-GMO certification for school nutrition and institutional feeding programs. Recent solicitations show that state and local governments procure avocados as part of broader fresh produce contracts for child nutrition, school lunch programs, and institutional food service, though avocados rarely appear as a standalone line item. Instead, they are bundled within larger fresh fruit and vegetable bids where schools, districts, and state agencies source dozens of produce items monthly. The sourcing is driven by USDA Child Nutrition Reimbursable program requirements, the Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program (FFVP), and National School Lunch Program standards, with emphasis on domestic agricultural products under Buy American provisions and, in some cases, local or regional sourcing within 50-to-400-mile radius preferences.

Issuing bodies under this code span school districts (elementary, K-12, and district food service operations), state departments of criminal justice (institutional canteens and food service), county boards of education, independent school districts, and child care and Head Start agencies. School districts dominate the activity—Madison Metropolitan School District, Northside Independent School District (San Antonio), Hillsborough County Public Schools (Tampa), McAllen Independent School District, Austin Independent School District, and numerous Georgia county systems (Bartow, Dougherty, Bryan, Glynn, Douglas, Henry) all bid fresh produce contracts in recent months. Texas Department of Criminal Justice and Georgia state purchasing also appear as regular issuing bodies for bulk commodity buys. The geographic concentration is heaviest in Georgia, Texas, and Florida, with secondary activity in Missouri, Connecticut, and throughout the Southeast. Representative recent opportunities include Hillsborough County Public Schools' FFVP contract (RFP 26039RFPDST, cost-plus-fixed-fee model, approximately $600,000 annual USDA-funded budget, elementary school fresh fruit delivery); Northside Independent School District's fresh produce RFP (RFP 2026-048, five-day-per-week delivery to 117 campuses, evaluation weighted 35% price, 25% goods availability, July 2026 start); and Douglas County School System's GEC Buying Cooperative fresh produce procurement (RFP SN 26-004, approximately $5.5 million combined annual spend across 30 districts in two Georgia regions, cost-plus-fixed-fee structure, sealed proposals due March 4, 2026). None of the recent opportunities identified in the source explicitly name avocados as a specification line; avocados would be subsumed in broader "fresh fruit" or "produce" categories. Vendors pursuing this code should focus on larger school district and institutional food service RFPs where fresh fruit appears, document non-GMO certification capabilities, and compete on price within USDA terminal market benchmarks and cost-plus-fee models common in school nutrition contracting.