UNSPSC 50171708: Cooking wines

UNSPSC 50171708 Cooking wines (Commodity) does not align with the recent state and local procurement activity tagged under this code. The Illinois Department of Agriculture and Kenosha County, Wisconsin have posted four recent solicitations nominally classified under this Commodity code, but all concern beer and beverage concession operations at public venues—beer tents, grandstands, and park beer gardens—rather than cooking wines or wine products for culinary use. The scope of work actually being solicited involves exclusive pouring rights, beverage service infrastructure (coolers, point-of-sale systems, portable restrooms, electrical wiring), retail dispensing at capped prices ($5.00–$6.00 per unit), and revenue-sharing arrangements with government agencies. This operational concession work falls outside the cooking-wine commodity's typical scope and suggests a classification mismatch in the state and local procurement database.

The issuing-body mix includes a state agricultural department (Illinois) and a county government (Kenosha County, Wisconsin). The Illinois Department of Agriculture issued two Invitation for Bid solicitations for beer tent and grandstand concession operations at the Illinois State Fair (due March 26, 2026) and one emergency final-cost report for completed concession contracts. Kenosha County issued an RFP for a beer garden concession at Petrifying Springs Park (due April 14, 2026, with a pre-proposal conference on March 10, 2026). Recent activity is concentrated in Illinois and Wisconsin. Because the code shows no recent opportunities for cooking wines or wine-related products actually aligned with the Commodity's nominal scope, this code does not represent a meaningful pursuit opportunity in current state and local procurement.