UNSPSC 50321713: Dried red bananas

The variety of bananas known as red bananas that have been dried for preservation.

UNSPSC 50321713 Dried red bananas (Commodity) does not align with the recent state and local procurement activity tagged under this code. The Commodity code nominally encompasses a specific dried fruit product; however, the five most recent opportunities soliciting under it span fresh produce procurement for school nutrition programs, institutional cafeteria food products for correctional facilities, and dried prunes for a single correctional location. Only the prunes opportunity (Texas Department of Criminal Justice IW236532, due February 20, 2026) involves a dried fruit category remotely related to the code's stated scope, and that solicitation explicitly sought whole, pitted, dried prunes in U.S. Grade B quality, not dried red bananas. The remaining four opportunities—Hancock County Schools fresh produce (IFB, due June 26, 2026), City of Bridgeport Board of Education commodities (IFB, due June 26, 2026), State of Georgia food supplies (IFB, due June 22, 2026), and Texas Department of Criminal Justice cafeteria food products (IFB, extended to May 4, 2026)—all center on fresh fruits and vegetables, eggs, poultry, dairy, proteins, and prepared entrees for school lunch and prison food service operations. These solicitations bear no connection to dried red bananas as a procurement category.

The issuing bodies are school districts and correctional agencies spanning Georgia, Texas, Connecticut, and Mississippi. Geographic activity clusters in the South (Texas, Georgia) and includes isolated activity in Connecticut and Mississippi. The code shows little relevant recent activity aligned with its stated commodity definition, suggesting either a classification error in the tagging system or minimal current demand from state and local buyers for dried red bananas as a standalone procurement line item.