UNSPSC 50181712: Tapioca

A starch extracted from cassava. Used worldwide as a thickening agent, mainly in foods

UNSPSC 50181712 Tapioca, a Commodity code, shows minimal recent state and local procurement activity aligned with the code's nominal scope. The source records 15 state and local opportunities posted between January and July 2026, but none directly solicit tapioca products or tapioca-based goods. Instead, the opportunities span broad food service procurement across multiple categories—school nutrition programs, institutional food supply, jail commissary services, and state facility food operations—where tapioca, if present at all, would be a minor line item among hundreds of others or embedded in manufactured bakery and prepared-food items. The most directly labeled opportunity is an Illinois State Use Vendor award notice for bakery mixes through the ComWell cooperative purchasing program (solicitation 27416CMSBOSS4B52919, posted July 13, 2026, with award notice to JPMC), which might include tapioca-based baking products, but the notice does not itemize components. A Georgia food, supplies, and kitchen products solicitation (PE55645NONST2026000000009, posted May 15, 2026, due June 22, 2026) and a Texas supplemental food and consumables statewide IFB (HHS0016792V2, posted May 19, 2026) encompass hundreds of line items across fresh, frozen, and dry goods categories where tapioca could theoretically appear, but neither explicitly names tapioca in the publicly available summary.

The issuing bodies include state departments (Illinois, Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Georgia), school districts (Rockwood R-VI in Missouri; Liberty County in Georgia; Dallas ISD in Texas; Douglas County in Georgia), county facilities (Marion County, Oregon jail commissary through Keefe Commissary Network), and cooperative purchasing vehicles (ComWell, GEC Buying Cooperative). Geographic activity concentrates in Texas (multiple HHSC and TDCJ food procurements), Georgia (school districts, state nutrition programs), Illinois (state-use vendor awards), Missouri (school district nutrition), and Oregon (county jail services). No recent solicitation explicitly targets tapioca as a primary or named commodity, and the code shows no evidence of active standalone demand from state and local buyers at this time.