UNSPSC 50322912: Dried medjool/medjul dates

The variety of dates known as medjool/medjul dates that have been dried for preservation.

UNSPSC 50322912 Dried medjool/medjul dates is a Commodity code that captures procurement of specialty dried fruit products for institutional food service, particularly school nutrition programs and correctional facilities. The recent opportunity record shows minimal direct activity under this specific code; only one solicitation explicitly names dried dates as a line item. State and local jurisdictions sourcing under this code buy dried fruit products as components of broader commodity food procurement supporting child nutrition, correctional food services, and other institutional cafeteria operations. School districts, county boards of education, and sheriff's departments represent the primary issuing bodies, with procurement typically embedded in larger food supply and grocery contracting cycles rather than standalone specialty-item solicitations.

Recent activity concentrates in Georgia and California. The County of Santa Clara, California issued ITB-PRC-FY26-0617 in January 2026 seeking dried raisins, cranberries, tropical fruit mix, walnuts, and pecans for Elmwood Correctional Facility—a five-item all-or-none procurement with annual volumes ranging from 1,000 to 5,880 cases and a five-year contract term with firm Year 1 pricing and capped annual increases in Years 2–5. The absence of medjool dates from that solicitation and from the broader school nutrition RFPs and IFBs posted by Hancock County Schools, Liberty County Board of Education, Savannah-Chatham County Public Schools, and Douglas County School System (Georgia) and Fairfax County Public Schools (Virginia) between January and June 2026 suggests limited recent demand for dried dates specifically. Broader institutional dried fruit procurement is active—Santa Clara's solicitation and references to dried fruit categories in grocery line-item lists confirm market movement—but medjool dates as a discrete line item do not appear in the sample. Buyers pursuing this code should monitor school nutrition and correctional food service RFPs for specialty produce line items and consider cooperative purchasing vehicles such as the GEC Buying Cooperative used by Georgia school districts.