UNSPSC 50321594: Dried winesap apples

The variety of apples known as winesap apples that have been dried for preservation.

UNSPSC 50321594 Dried winesap apples is a Commodity code that covers dried apple products for procurement by state and local food-service operations, particularly school nutrition programs and correctional-facility dining services. State and local governments buy dried apples primarily as bulk commodity ingredients for cafeteria meal preparation, nutritional programming, and food-supply contracts that serve student populations, inmates, and institutional clients. The issuing bodies are school districts (Hancock County Board of Education in Georgia, City of Bridgeport Board of Education in Connecticut), state agencies (State of Georgia, Texas Department of Criminal Justice through the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts Statewide Procurement Division), and corrections departments purchasing food staples for multiple distribution and warehouse locations. These agencies solicit through formal IFB notices with sealed-bid processes, firm fixed-price bidding, and Buy American compliance requirements (typically 51 percent domestic agricultural commodity content for processed products). Award authority typically reserves the right to select single or multiple vendors, and contracts run annual terms with optional renewal periods.

Recent activity shows geographic concentration in the Southeast and South. Hancock County Schools (Georgia) issued IFB #SN002-2027 for fresh produce including multiple apple varieties for the 2026–27 school year, with bids due June 26, 2026, and delivery to three school locations; the City of Bridgeport (Connecticut) issued a commodities IFB due June 26, 2026, covering 115 line items of food products for the Board of Education Nutrition Center; the State of Georgia posted a food, supplies, and kitchen products IFB due June 22, 2026; and the Texas Department of Criminal Justice issued IFB No. 304T-26-300CF for cafeteria food products across five geographic warehouse areas in Texas with response due May 4, 2026 (extended via addendum). While dried winesap apples are not explicitly named in the summaries of these recent opportunities, the code appears in a procurement environment dominated by nutrition and food-service contracting at the school-district and state-agency level, with strong Buy American requirements and multi-location delivery obligations.