UNSPSC 50321806: Dried mentor barberries

The variety of barberries known as mentor barberries that have been dried for preservation.

UNSPSC 50321806 Dried mentor barberries, a Commodity code, spans specialty dried fruit products procured by state and local governments for institutional food service—primarily school nutrition programs, correctional facilities, and regional education cooperatives. The recent solicitation record shows no active opportunities explicitly tagged to this specific code; instead, state and local buyers have posted numerous related dried-fruit and fresh-produce acquisitions under neighboring commodity classifications. The single opportunity nominally matching the code name—a Santa Clara County correctional-facility bid for dried fruits and nuts (ITB-PRC-FY26-0617, due February 5, 2026)—covers raisins, cranberries, tropical fruit mix, walnuts, and pecans, with no mention of mentor barberries. This mismatch suggests the code sees minimal direct state and local procurement activity under its precise commodity designation.

School districts dominate recent state and local food-service procurement across dried and fresh produce more broadly: Hancock County Schools (Georgia), Rockwood R-VI (Missouri), Fairfax County Public Schools (Virginia), Savannah-Chatham County (Georgia), Douglas County Schools (Georgia), and Liberty County Schools (Georgia) have all posted IFBs and RFPs for grocery, produce, and food-supply contracts in the past six months. Geographic activity clusters in Georgia, with additional solicitations in California, Connecticut, Missouri, Texas, and Virginia. Texas Department of Criminal Justice has posted multiple commodity food bids (IFB 304T-26-300CF for cafeteria food products, due May 4, 2026; and Bid IW236532 for whole pitted dried prunes, due February 20, 2026), indicating sustained correctional-facility procurement. Mentor barberries, as a specialty ingredient, do not surface in any of these recent opportunities, suggesting limited or no current state and local demand under this specific commodity line.