UNSPSC 50321620: Dried golden sweet apricots

The variety of apricots known as golden sweet apricots that have been dried for preservation.

UNSPSC 50321620 Dried golden sweet apricots is a Commodity code that nominally specifies a single dried-fruit product line, yet recent state and local solicitations tagged under this code reveal minimal direct procurement activity for apricots themselves. The code appears in a landscape dominated by broader school nutrition and institutional food service contracting, where dried fruits are embedded within larger fresh produce, specialty grocery, and food-supply line items rather than solicited as standalone commodity purchases. When state and local jurisdictions do procure dried fruits—as evidenced by the County of Santa Clara's dried fruits and nuts ITB and the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's dried prunes bid—the activity clusters around correctional facilities, school nutrition programs, and county food services rather than spanning a diverse issuing-body base. Geographic activity centers on California, Georgia, Texas, Connecticut, and Missouri, with school districts representing the largest share of recent opportunities that reference dried-fruit procurement as a component of larger food service contracts.

Recent representative opportunities show the operational reality: the County of Santa Clara (California) issued ITB-PRC-FY26-0617 for dried raisins, cranberries, tropical fruit mix, walnuts, and pecans to support Elmwood Correctional Facility, with bids due February 5, 2026, on an all-or-none, five-year fixed-price basis; the Texas Department of Criminal Justice issued Bid No. IW236532 for whole, pitted, dried prunes (U.S. Grade B, 60–70 count) in minimum quantities of 1,400 boxes to its Corpus location, with the bid opening moved to February 20, 2026. Beyond these direct dried-fruit procurements, the broader food service contracts—such as Rockwood R-VI School District's 900-line-item grocery bid (April 29, 2026), Fairfax County Public Schools' Master Grocery K-12 IFB (April 27, 2026), and the Douglas County School System's food supply RFP serving 25,500 students with $9 million annual spend (February 18, 2026)—reference dried fruits as minor line items within diversified food categories. The code sees infrequent standalone solicitation activity, making pursuit viable only for vendors positioned to supply correctional or large institutional systems with bulk dried-fruit products meeting USDA grade and nutritional specifications.