UNSPSC 50321714: Dried saba bananas

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

UNSPSC 50321714 Dried saba bananas is a Commodity-tier code that captures state and local procurement of specialty dried fruit products for institutional food service. Recent opportunities show minimal direct sourcing of dried saba bananas specifically; instead, state and local buyers tag broader fresh and processed produce categories under this code. The Hancock County Board of Education's IFB for fresh produce spanning the 2026-27 school year (posted June 10, 2026, due June 26, 2026) and the City of Bridgeport's commodities RFB for school nutrition center supply (posted June 2, 2026, due June 26, 2026) represent typical institutional produce procurements, though neither explicitly lists dried saba bananas in their line-item detail. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice's procurement of cafeteria food products (IFB 304T-26-300CF, extended to May 4, 2026) and a prior TDCJ dried-fruit solicitation for whole pitted prunes (Bid IW236532, closed February 20, 2026) suggest that dried fruit does appear in correctional and institutional food service portfolios, but dried saba bananas are not named in available records. Buy American provisions requiring minimum 51 percent domestic content in processed products and delivery to designated distribution points are standard across these school and institutional solicitations.

State and local activity under this code concentrates among school districts and correctional agencies in Georgia, Connecticut, and Texas. Hancock County Schools and the City of Bridgeport Board of Education both issued produce RFBs with June 2026 response windows; the Georgia Department of Education or equivalent issued a statewide food products solicitation (PE55645NONST2026000000009, due June 22, 2026); and TDCJ issued multiple food procurement IFBs across five geographic Texas distribution areas. Geographic spread includes the Southeast (Georgia), Northeast (Connecticut), and Texas, with no recent opportunities naming dried saba bananas as a line item. The code shows limited active market signal for dried saba bananas specifically — buyers in this tier solicit broad fresh and processed produce categories under overlapping UNSPSC designations, and dried saba bananas do not surface as a named commodity in recent school nutrition or institutional food service RFBs or IFBs.