UNSPSC 50325823: Dried earliqueen plums

The variety of plums known as earliqueen plums that have been dried for preservation.

UNSPSC 50325823 Dried earliqueen plums (Commodity) represents a narrow food-service commodity purchased almost exclusively by school districts and corrections agencies for institutional meal programs. State and local procurement activity under this code is sparse; recent opportunities show purchasing concentrated in K–12 school nutrition and criminal-justice food services rather than broader produce procurement.

The recent solicitation record contains only one opportunity directly naming dried plums as a line item: the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) Bid No. IW236532 for whole, pitted, dried prunes (60–70 count, U.S. Grade B, 25-pound boxes, minimum order 1,400 boxes for Delivery Area 1), with a revised due date of February 20, 2026. Broader school nutrition RFPs issued by Hancock County Board of Education (Georgia), Fairfax County Public Schools (Virginia), Liberty County Board of Education (Georgia), Savannah-Chatham County Public School System (Georgia), Douglas County School System (Georgia), Rockwood R-VI School District (Missouri), and the City of Bridgeport Board of Education (Connecticut) all solicit fresh or frozen produce across multiple fruit and vegetable categories but do not isolate dried plums or earliqueen varieties in their posted item lists—those commodities may appear within voluminous bid schedules not fully summarized in the opportunity records. Santa Clara County (California) issued an ITB for dried fruits and nuts (including raisins, cranberries, and tropical fruit mix) for its correctional facility food service, but did not specify earliqueen or other plum varieties. Opportunities are concentrated in Georgia (TDCJ, three school districts) and scattered across Texas, Virginia, Missouri, Connecticut, and California. Geographic and issuing-body data suggest demand is episodic and tied to institutional food-service cycles (school year contracts typically July–June, corrections facilities year-round), with no indication of recurring or high-volume earliqueen plum procurement in the visible recent record.