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, shows no relevant recent activity in state and local procurement. The fifteen recorded opportunities in the source—from Ohio, Texas, Connecticut, California, Florida, South Carolina, Michigan, and Wisconsin—consistently identify the actual commodities being solicited as fresh produce, dairy, meats, bread, frozen foods, beverages, snack items, paper goods, and senior meal services. None involve dried fish. The Ohio postings, which dominate the dataset with multiple same-day posting-and-due-date entries across bread products, cereals, dairy, frozen vegetables, condiments, seasonings, and lunch meats, appear to truncate or miscategorize notices from a state eProcurement system; the issuing bodies and substantive scope details are not provided. The three richly documented opportunities—Stockton Unified School District's ITB for USDA-compliant dairy and bakery products (June 2026), the City of Bridgeport's IFB for over 1,100 line items of grocery items including breakfast, dairy, frozen products, and meats (June 2026), and Beaufort County's RFP for detention center food services (June 2026)—all target institutional food service supply chains (school nutrition, municipal schools, correctional facilities). The Michigan Department of Corrections awarded a $150 million, three-year food service contract to Sun Valley Foods Company for 15 product categories across 26 facilities, yet dried fish was not named among the deliverables.

State and local procurement activity under this code does not appear concentrated in any single jurisdiction type or geography. School districts (Stockton, Fontana Unified, Bridgeport, New Haven, Garland ISD), counties (Beaufort, Hillsborough, Marion), municipalities (City of Meriden, City of Bridgeport, City of New Haven), and state corrections agencies (Michigan Department of Corrections) all actively solicit food items, but the commodity is dried fish—not fresh or frozen fish, not seafood of any kind. Without evidence that state and local agencies are actively procuring dried fish under this code or any related food-procurement UNSPSC code, the opportunity pool for vendors in this category appears dormant at the solicitation level. Business development activity should focus on other food-commodity codes where institutional demand is documented and active.