UNSPSC 50321810: Dried bagatelle barberries

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

UNSPSC 50321810 Dried bagatelle barberries is a Commodity code that encompasses dried fruit products sold to state and local institutional food-service operations, particularly school districts, correctional facilities, and other public agencies operating cafeterias and nutrition programs. The solicitations under this code show state and local governments purchasing dried fruits—raisins, cranberries, tropical fruit blends, prunes, and mixed dried fruit items—as components of broader food-service supply contracts. Issuing bodies include school districts (elementary, middle, and high school nutrition programs), state departments of criminal justice, county boards of education, and municipal school systems across multiple states. The work solicited is primarily food procurement and delivery to support institutional meal programs, with vendors required to meet USDA compliance, food-safety standards including HACCP plans and recall procedures, Buy American provisions mandating domestic content in processed products, and strict nutritional specifications limiting calories, added sugars, and fat content.

Recent activity spans Georgia, Texas, Connecticut, California, Missouri, and Virginia. Representative solicitations include Hancock County Schools Nutrition (Georgia) issuing IFB for fresh produce with a June 26, 2026 response date; the County of Santa Clara (California) issuing ITB-PRC-FY26-0617 for dried fruits and nuts with a February 5, 2026 deadline; Texas Department of Criminal Justice issuing IFB 304T-26-300CF for cafeteria food products with a May 4, 2026 response date; and Rockwood R-VI School District (Missouri) issuing a grocery items solicitation due April 29, 2026. Most school-district contracts run July 1 through June 30 annually and allow awards to single or multiple vendors on a line-item basis. Pricing is firm fixed for the contract period with limited exceptions for manufacturer price increases, and delivery requirements are typically weekly or twice-weekly to multiple school sites between specified morning and early-afternoon windows. No recent solicitations have explicitly named dried barberries as a line item; the code appears to see little focused activity under its specific commodity designation, with dried fruits appearing as minor components within larger grocery and produce contracts rather than standalone procurement vehicles.