UNSPSC 50202209: Soju

A type of alcohol which is made by fermenting the grain and distilling it, and sometimes it is mixed with water to dilute the alcohol.

UNSPSC 50202209 Soju (Commodity) does not align with recent state and local procurement activity under this code. The four most recent opportunities in the data all involve beer and beverage concession operations at public venues—specifically beer tent and grandstand concessions at the Illinois State Fair and a beer garden at Kenosha County's Petrifying Springs Park—none of which involve soju procurement or sales. The code's nominal scope (soju, a Korean distilled spirit) appears disconnected from what state and local governments are actually buying under this classification in the available record. The issuing bodies include state departments (Illinois Department of Agriculture) and county parks divisions (Kenosha County), but the procurement activity is concession-operations contracting rather than spirit product supply.

Recent opportunities show no solicitations for soju as a beverage product to be procured, stocked, or distributed by state or local agencies. The Illinois Department of Agriculture did conduct an emergency procurement in 2025 for "alcohol concession at beer tent" (combined vendors association, $630,372 final cost) and "alcohol at grandstand" (American Business Club, $494,124 final cost), but those postings appear to be final-cost reports filed after contract completion rather than open solicitations. Without evidence that soju specifically is being solicited under this code, or that state and local governments view this commodity code as the vehicle for alcohol beverage procurement, the code shows no actionable recent activity for business development purposes.