UNSPSC 50322521: Dried sonata cherries

The variety of cherries known as sonata cherries that have been dried for preservation.

UNSPSC 50322521 Dried sonata cherries, a Commodity code, sees minimal recent state and local procurement activity. The nine most-recent opportunities in the dataset span dried fruits, fresh produce, and broad food supply categories for school nutrition programs and correctional facilities, but only one explicitly addresses dried fruit: Santa Clara County's January 2026 ITB for dried fruits and nuts to supply its detention facility, which called for dried raisins, dried cranberries, and dried tropical fruit mix alongside walnuts and pecans on an all-or-none basis with 5,880 cases of raisins and 1,000 cases each of cranberries and tropical fruit mix estimated annually. The code shows no recent activity specifically targeting dried sonata cherries as a line item in state or local solicitations; the Santa Clara procurement and a Texas Department of Criminal Justice bid for whole pitted dried prunes (issued February 2026) represent the only dried-fruit-specific procurements in the recent record, and neither names dried sonata cherries.

School districts and state departments dominate state and local food purchasing generally, but dried specialty fruits appear only peripherally in commodity procurement. Recent opportunities originate from Georgia school districts (Hancock County Schools, Liberty County Board of Education, Savannah-Chatham County Public School System, Douglas County School System), Connecticut (City of Bridgeport), Missouri (Rockwood R-VI School District), Virginia (Fairfax County Public Schools), Texas (TDCJ via the Comptroller of Public Accounts), and California (Santa Clara County), with the vast majority of volume concentrated in fresh produce and broad grocery supply contracts rather than dried-fruit specialties. Buyers are school nutrition programs executing IFBs and RFPs for multi-hundred-line-item annual food supply, with contract periods typically July 1 through June 30 and response windows generally 30 to 60 days. The code itself lacks sufficient recent procurement signals to establish a meaningful pursuit strategy at this tier; dried sonata cherries do not appear in any named specification across the opportunities, and dried-fruit procurement remains incidental to institutional food service rather than a category in its own right.