UNSPSC 50325414: Dried d'anjou pears

The variety of pears known as d'anjou pears that have been dried for preservation.

UNSPSC 50325414 Dried d'anjou pears is a Commodity code that maps poorly to actual state and local procurement activity in the sourced records. Of the thirteen recent opportunities, only one directly involves dried fruit procurement—a Santa Clara County ITB for dried fruits and nuts to support correctional-facility food services, which specifies dried raisins, cranberries, and tropical fruit mix but does not name d'anjou pears. The remaining twelve opportunities span school nutrition programs, correctional facilities, and regional food distribution—all soliciting fresh produce, fresh eggs, and fresh or prepared food products as mainstays of child nutrition and institutional meal service. The code's nominal scope (dried d'anjou pears specifically) does not align with the breadth of what state and local governments actually buy under it based on recent RFP and IFB activity.

The recent opportunities cluster heavily in Georgia school districts and broader regional cooperative-purchasing consortia, with secondary activity in Texas corrections, Connecticut and Missouri school nutrition, California corrections, and Virginia schools. Issuing bodies are predominantly school districts and their nutrition programs (Hancock County, Liberty County, Douglas County, Rockwood R-VI, Fairfax County, Savannah-Chatham County in Georgia, Missouri, and Virginia), state-level corrections agencies (Texas Department of Criminal Justice), municipal departments (Bridgeport, Connecticut), and a county corrections facility (Santa Clara, California). The Georgia Education Cooperative (GEC) Buying Cooperative coordinates multi-district procurement for fresh produce and eggs across 30 Georgia school districts, with estimated annual spending of approximately $4.4 million for Area One and $1.1 million for Area Two. Representative solicitations include Hancock County Schools IFB SN002-2027 for fresh produce spanning over 200 line items (response due June 26, 2026); the City of Bridgeport commodities ITB (response due June 26, 2026); Fairfax County Public Schools Master Grocery K-12 IFB 2000004323 covering 76+ items for 45 schools and seven distribution kitchens (response due April 27, 2026); and the Douglas County School System RFP SN 26-004 for fresh produce and eggs across 30 districts (response due March 4, 2026). The preponderance of procurement is for fresh fruit, fresh vegetables, dairy, proteins, and prepared entrees—not dried fruit—suggesting either significant code-application drift or very limited state and local use of dried d'anjou pears as a commodity category in institutional food service.