UNSPSC 50325460: Dried winter nelis pears

The variety of pears known as winter nelis pears that have been dried for preservation.

UNSPSC 50325460 Dried winter nelis pears is a Commodity code that sees minimal direct procurement activity under its specific name in recent state and local opportunities. The code nominally describes a single dried-fruit product line, but the recent opportunities dataset shows no solicitations explicitly requesting dried winter nelis pears. One historical opportunity from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) sought whole, pitted, dried prunes under Bid No. IW236532 (due February 20, 2026), with a minimum order of 1,400 boxes of U.S. Grade B product in 60-70 count size, but this falls outside the winter nelis pear scope. The broader ecosystem of state and local food procurement — dominated by school districts, county education agencies, and correctional departments — regularly sources dried fruits as part of larger grocery, fresh produce, and specialty-item contracts, but individual dried-pear line items do not appear as standalone solicitation subjects in the recent posting cycle.

State and local buyers in the school nutrition and corrections food-service space source dried fruits through two primary channels: integrated grocery or produce contracts that bundle dozens or hundreds of items (as seen in Rockwood R-VI School District's 900-line-item grocery solicitation, Fairfax County Public Schools' Master Grocery K-12 term contract, and Liberty County Board of Education's 400-item food procurement, all due in late April 2026), or narrow specialty solicitations targeting specific product families such as dried fruits and nuts (as in Santa Clara County's ITB for dried raisins, cranberries, tropical fruit mix, walnuts, and pecans for Elmwood Correctional Facility). The TDCJ prunes opportunity and Santa Clara County dried-fruits-and-nuts bid suggest that correctional departments and large school systems occasionally open dedicated dried-fruit line items within larger food supply frameworks. Geographic activity appears concentrated in Georgia (Douglas County School System, Liberty County Board of Education, Savannah-Chatham County Public Schools, Hancock County Schools) and scattered across Texas, California, Connecticut, Missouri, and Virginia. Without a recent standalone dried winter nelis pear solicitation, vendors in this commodity face limited direct procurement signals; activity is more likely to emerge through responsive positioning within broad-based grocery contracts or through direct outreach to correctional food-service programs and school nutrition departments that manage seasonal or specialty-item sourcing separately from primary food distributors.