UNSPSC 50324205: Dried tahitian limes

The variety of limes known as tahitian limes that have been dried for preservation.

UNSPSC 50324205 Dried tahitian limes, a Commodity code, covers specialty dried fruit products for institutional food service. State and local school districts and correctional departments source dried fruits and allied specialty produce items—including dried limes, prunes, and comparable preserved citrus and stone fruits—as ingredients and menu components for cafeteria operations. The solicitations show school nutrition programs and state food service operations purchasing dried and fresh produce, often bundled with broader commodity lots that span proteins, dairy, grains, and shelf-stable items. Issuing bodies include independent school districts (such as Hancock County Schools in Georgia), municipal education departments (City of Bridgeport's Board of Education Nutrition Center), state agencies (Georgia Department of Administrative Services and the Texas Department of Criminal Justice), and regional correctional facility systems. These buyers typically consolidate produce and food-service procurement into single IFBs covering 100–400+ line items, with firm fixed pricing, Buy American compliance (51 percent domestic content for processed products), HACCP or USDA grade certification, and delivery to centralized nutrition or warehouse distribution points.

Recent activity appears concentrated in the Southeast and South. Hancock County Schools (Sparta, Georgia) issued IFB #SN002-2027 on June 10, 2026, with response due June 26 for fresh and specialty produce delivery to three school sites through June 30, 2027. The City of Bridgeport, Connecticut posted solicitation BNB053266 on June 2, 2026, due June 26 for 115 line items including fruit and vegetable products to supply the Thomas E. Carroll Nutrition Center. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice, through the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, posted IFB 304T-26-300CF on May 4, 2026 (extended to May 4 response deadline) for approximately 382 food line items including fresh and preserved fruits to six TDCJ warehouse locations. An earlier TDCJ procurement (Bid No. IW236532, posted April 23, 2026) targeted dried prunes specifically—U.S. Grade B whole pitted prunes in 60–70 count size, minimum order 1,400 boxes for Corpus Christi location. The code shows steady recent activity but a narrow application: dried tahitian limes or comparable specialty dried citrus do not appear explicitly in the named recent solicitations, which focus on broader commodity bundles or commodity-standard dried fruits (prunes). Vendors pursuing this code should expect primarily bundled school-nutrition and correctional-food-service RFPs and IFBs, with strict Buy American, USDA compliance, and centralized-delivery requirements.