UNSPSC 50325855: Dried owen t plums

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

UNSPSC 50325855 Dried Owen T Plums is a Commodity code that captures dried fruit procurement for institutional food service, though recent state and local solicitations show little activity specific to this product line and instead reflect broad dried-fruit and general grocery buying across school districts, county corrections, and state agencies. The code's nominal scope—dried plums—sits within a far larger landscape of institutional produce and food-service purchasing where state and local buyers acquire fresh produce, frozen foods, proteins, dairy, and shelf-stable items in bulk for child nutrition programs, correctional facilities, and workforce feeding operations. Recent opportunities tagged under or related to dried-fruit categories involve school districts, state departments of education, county school systems, county corrections departments, and regional buying cooperatives, with school nutrition programs representing the dominant category of issuing bodies and the most frequent repeat solicitors across the dataset.

Recent activity is concentrated in the Southeast and mid-Atlantic regions. Georgia school districts—including Hancock County Schools, Liberty County Board of Education, Savannah-Chatham County Public School System, and Douglas County School System—have posted multiple fresh-produce and grocery solicitations; Missouri's Rockwood R-VI School District and Virginia's Fairfax County Public Schools have issued broader grocery and produce contracts; Connecticut's City of Bridgeport and Texas (via TDCJ and the Comptroller's office) round out the geographic spread. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice issued a specific bid (IW236532) for whole, pitted, dried prunes in U.S. Grade B quality, 60–70 count size, in sealed polybags within cardboard boxes of 25 pounds each, with a minimum order of 1,400 boxes for delivery to a Corpus Christi location—a direct match to the commodity code—but that solicitation had a due date of February 20, 2026, now past. Current active opportunities include Hancock County Schools' fresh-produce IFB due June 26, 2026; City of Bridgeport's broader commodity procurement (including fruits and vegetables) due June 26, 2026; Rockwood R-VI's grocery items RFP due April 29, 2026; Liberty County Board of Education's food-product IFB due April 29, 2026; and Santa Clara County's dried-fruits-and-nuts ITB due February 5, 2026 (now closed). Buyers typically demand Buy American provisions (51 percent domestic content for processed items), HACCP plans and food-safety certifications, firm fixed pricing for the contract term, and FOB destination delivery to multiple school or facility locations with lead times of one to two weeks and payment in 30 to 90 days.