UNSPSC 50322704: Dried howe cranberries

The variety of cranberries known as howe cranberries that have been dried for preservation.

UNSPSC 50322704 Dried howe cranberries is a Commodity code that encompasses dried cranberry products procured by state and local governments primarily for school nutrition programs and correctional facility food service. Recent solicitations show school districts and county governments purchasing dried cranberries as component ingredients in bulk dried-fruit procurement for cafeteria operations, along with supplementary dried-fruit blends and processed produce items. State and local nutrition programs source these products through food-service distributors and specialty dried-fruit vendors, typically bundling cranberries with other dried fruits, nuts, and fresh produce under annual fixed-price supply contracts. The issuing-body mix consists mainly of K-12 school districts (independent, county, and regional systems), county correctional facilities, and state departments overseeing child nutrition or institutional food service. School districts dominate the recent activity—including Hancock County Schools (Georgia), Rockwood R-VI School District (Missouri), Liberty County Board of Education (Georgia), Savannah-Chatham County Public School System (Georgia), and Fairfax County Public Schools (Virginia)—supplemented by Santa Clara County's Department of Correction food service and state-level procurements through Georgia and Texas. Buy American requirements mandating domestic content appear consistently across school nutrition solicitations.

Geographic concentration is heaviest in Georgia and the broader Southeast, with recent activity also documented in California, Connecticut, Missouri, Texas, and Virginia. A representative recent procurement is Santa Clara County's ITB-PRC-FY26-0617 (due February 5, 2026), which explicitly named dried cranberries as one of five all-or-none line items for Elmwood Correctional Facility, requesting 1,000 cases annually of dried cranberries meeting 110–125 calories per serving with zero added sugars under California Code of Regulations Title 15. School-nutrition-focused examples include Hancock County Schools' IFB #SN002-2027 (posted June 10, 2026, due June 26, 2026) for fresh produce spanning over 200 line items including berry varieties, and Rockwood R-VI's procurement of over 900 grocery line items (due April 29, 2026) encompassing snacks, fruits, and specialty produce items. The code shows steady baseline demand tied to school-year cycles (July through June contract terms) and institutional food service, though the recent-opportunities block contains no solicitations explicitly isolating dried cranberries as a standalone category—they appear as bundled items within broader dried-fruit, produce, or grocery supply contracts.