UNSPSC 50325017: Dried jaffa oranges

The variety of oranges known as jaffa oranges that have been dried for preservation.

UNSPSC 50325017 Dried jaffa oranges, a Commodity code, has minimal recent state and local procurement activity. The code's nominal scope — preserved citrus fruit — does not align with the actual work state and local governments are buying under it. Recent opportunities tagged to this code predominantly solicit broad fresh produce and general food service items for school nutrition programs and institutional food service, not dried jaffa oranges specifically. School districts, county boards of education, and state criminal justice agencies are the primary issuing bodies, but none of the solicitations emphasize or isolate dried citrus products as a distinct procurement line. The few opportunities mentioning any dried fruit at all (such as Santa Clara County's dried fruits and nuts ITB and the TDCJ's prunes procurement) call for raisins, cranberries, tropical fruit blends, walnuts, pecans, and whole pitted prunes—categories orthogonal to dried jaffa oranges. The mismatch between code classification and actual procurement scope suggests either miscoding by issuing bodies or very limited market demand for this specific commodity through state and local channels.

Recent activity clusters in Georgia, Texas, Missouri, Connecticut, and California, driven principally by K–12 school nutrition programs running annual or multi-year fresh produce and staple food contracts due spring through early summer. Representative solicitations include Hancock County Schools (Georgia) fresh produce IFB due June 26, 2026; Fairfax County Public Schools (Virginia) Master Grocery K-12 IFB due April 27, 2026; Rockwood School District (Missouri) grocery items RFP due April 29, 2026; and Douglas County School System (Georgia) RFP for fresh produce and eggs through a cooperative buying vehicle due March 4, 2026. A single Santa Clara County (California) ITB for dried fruits and nuts to a correctional facility (due February 5, 2026) represents the only recent solicitation explicitly naming dried fruit line items, but the scope covers raisins, cranberries, and tropical fruit blends rather than jaffa oranges. No recent state or local solicitations explicitly reference dried jaffa oranges, whole or segmented, suggesting this commodity does not represent a meaningful purchasing vector in the current state and local market.