UNSPSC 50121542: Dried fish

A fish, such as a cod or haddock, cured by being split and air-dried without salt. WFP food convention.

UNSPSC 50121542 Dried fish, a Commodity code, sees minimal recent activity in state and local procurement. The Illinois Department of Central Management Services posted a change order notice extending its Joint Purchase Master Contract for Food and Grocery Items through February 28, 2027, a non-competitive continuation that preserves an incumbent vendor relationship during protest resolution of a separate competitive procurement. Beyond that extension, the recent-opportunities block yields no substantive solicitations explicitly framing dried fish or seafood products as the primary procurement object. The code's abstract scope—preserved seafood for institutional food service—aligns with state and local purchasing patterns in school nutrition, detention facility meals, and general agency food provisioning, but the actual buying signal under this code is dormant or heavily masked by broader food-category aggregations.

The geographic spread is limited. Illinois dominates the visible record through the CMS extension notice. Ohio appears repeatedly across the recent block, but those entries tag miscellaneous food categories (produce, dairy, frozen goods, condiments, breakfast items, pasta, beverages, baked goods) under the same code family without naming dried fish or seafood specifics; the source characterizes these as insufficiently detailed postings lacking issuing-body identification and substantive scope data. Texas shows two active solicitations—a school district bid for groceries and miscellaneous shelf items (Harlingen CISD, October 1, 2026, IFB) and a health and human services canteen snack procurement (Texas HHSC, September 9, 2026, IFB HHS0017722_V3, historical value $75,000)—but neither explicitly features dried fish. South Carolina posted a detention-center food services RFP (Beaufort County, June 22, 2026, due date passed) specifying three meals daily from institutional kitchens, again without dried-fish line items visible in the abstract. The code shows no repeat buyers, no set-asides, and no clear geographic concentration. Recent procurement velocity is low; most Ohio postings carry same-day or next-day deadlines with minimal scope detail, signaling either cooperative-purchasing reorders or data-collection noise rather than active market demand for this specific commodity.