UNSPSC 50325435: Dried passe crasanne pears

The variety of pears known as passe crasanne pears that have been dried for preservation.

UNSPSC 50325435 Dried passe crasanne pears, a Commodity code, sits within a far broader market for dried fruits and specialty produce items that state and local governments procure for school nutrition, correctional facilities, and other public food services. Recent solicitations under this code and closely related dried-fruit categories show that state and local buyers are acquiring dried fruits — including raisins, cranberries, tropical fruit blends, prunes, and other specialty dried items — as components of larger fresh-produce, grocery, and food-service contracts rather than as standalone line items. School districts dominate the issuing-body mix, with examples including Hancock County Schools (Georgia), Fairfax County Public Schools (Virginia), Liberty County Board of Education (Georgia), Savannah-Chatham County Public School System (Georgia), Rockwood School District (Missouri), and Douglas County School System (Georgia); other issuing bodies include state departments of criminal justice (Texas and Georgia), the City of Bridgeport Board of Education (Connecticut), and county correctional facilities (Santa Clara County, California). Most school-based procurements bundle dried fruits within broader fresh-produce, grocery, or meal-service contracts where produce items span apples, berries, vegetables, citrus, and melons, with dried fruits appearing as line items within larger scopes. Correctional-facility purchases show dried fruits as standalone or grouped items — the County of Santa Clara's dried fruits and nuts ITB specifically itemizes dried raisins, cranberries, tropical fruit mix, walnuts, and pecans for the Elmwood Correctional Facility, and the Texas Department of Criminal Justice issued a standalone IFB for whole, pitted, dried prunes in U.S. Grade B quality.

Activity concentrates in the Southeast (Georgia, with multiple school districts and the State of Georgia's own food-supply solicitation) and extends into the mid-Atlantic and upper South (Virginia, Connecticut, Missouri, Texas), with western activity represented by Santa Clara County, California. Recent representative opportunities include Hancock County Schools' fresh-produce IFB due June 26, 2026, which spans over 200 fresh-produce line items (with dried pears potentially embedded in broader category solicitation); Fairfax County Public Schools' Master Grocery K-12 IFB (due April 27, 2026) covering grocery products for 45 elementary, middle, and high schools plus distribution kitchens; Liberty County Board of Education's IFB for food products due April 29, 2026, encompassing over 400 food items across multiple categories; and Santa Clara County's ITB for dried fruits and nuts due February 5, 2026, with five specific line items (dried raisins, cranberries, tropical fruit mix, walnuts, and pecans) on an all-or-none basis. The UNSPSC code itself (dried passe crasanne pears) does not appear as a discrete line item in any named solicitation; vendors pursuing this code should track school-nutrition grocery contracts, produce-supply RFPs, and correctional-facility food procurements where dried fruit is bundled as a category or identified by specific product type.