UNSPSC 50321629: Dried king apricots

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

UNSPSC 50321629 Dried king apricots is a Commodity code that does not reflect significant recent state and local procurement activity. The recent opportunities block shows no solicitations specifically for dried king apricots or related dried stone fruits. One opportunity — County of Santa Clara's dried fruits and nuts procurement for correctional food services — includes dried cranberries, raisins, and tropical fruit mix but names no apricots or stone fruits. The solicitation landscape under this code appears dormant at the state and local level, with school nutrition and institutional food service contracts heavily favoring fresh produce, eggs, and mainstream processed foods rather than specialty dried fruits.

State and local buyers soliciting food products in recent months — including Hancock County Schools, Fairfax County Public Schools, Liberty County Board of Education, Rockwood R-VI School District, Savannah-Chatham County Public Schools, and Douglas County School System — structure nutrition contracts around bulk fresh and frozen staples, canned goods, proteins, grains, and prepared entrees. Dried apricots, whether whole or king-size, do not appear in the line-item detail of these large-volume school nutrition RFPs and IFBs. County correctional facilities and sheriff's departments procuring inmate food supplies (Santa Clara County and Texas Department of Criminal Justice) also gravitate toward volume staples and commodity proteins rather than specialty dried fruits. Unless a jurisdiction bundles apricots into a broader dried-fruit or specialty-snack category at the segment or family level, this commodity appears underutilized in current state and local procurement activity.