UNSPSC 50325021: Dried late navel oranges

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

UNSPSC 50325021 Dried late navel oranges (Commodity) appears in school nutrition and institutional food service procurement, but state and local purchasing under this code shows limited recent activity focused on fresh produce sourcing rather than dried citrus specifically. The Hancock County Board of Education's fresh produce solicitation (IFB #SN002-2027, due June 26, 2026) and the City of Bridgeport's commodities bid (due June 26, 2026) both swept citrus into broader fresh-produce categories spanning apples, berries, vegetables, and specialty fruits; neither solicitation isolated dried navel oranges as a line item or emphasized them as a primary procurement driver. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice issued separate bids for prunes and other dried fruits for institutional food service, but no dedicated dried navel orange procurement has appeared in recent notices. School districts and correctional agencies remain the primary institutional buyers soliciting produce and food items under related codes, with Buy American requirements (minimum 51 percent domestic content for processed products) and HACCP/food safety compliance mandated across solicitations. The issuing bodies span K–12 school nutrition departments, city boards of education nutrition centers, state procurement divisions, and state criminal justice agencies.

Recent procurement activity under this code concentrates in Georgia and Texas, with secondary activity in Connecticut. The Hancock County Board of Education (Sparta, Georgia) solicited over 200 fresh-produce line items for July 2026–June 2027 delivery to three school sites under IFB, while the City of Bridgeport Department of Public Purchases (Connecticut) issued a commodities bid for 115 line items to supply its nutrition center by June 26, 2026. The State of Georgia and Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts (on behalf of TDCJ) both posted institutional food procurement notices in May–June 2026. No recent opportunity explicitly named dried late navel oranges as a distinct solicited item; the code's nominal scope diverges from what is actively being purchased. Vendors pursuing this code should monitor school nutrition and correctional food service RFPs and IFBs in states with large institutional food systems, though dried citrus appears to be bundled into broader produce or specialty-item categories rather than solicited as a standalone commodity.