UNSPSC 50325874: Dried saphire plums

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

UNSPSC 50325874 Dried sapphire plums is a Commodity code that represents specialty dried fruit products for institutional food service, though the recent state and local solicitations under this code reveal minimal direct activity. The opportunities posted in the source show school districts, county boards of education, and correctional facilities procuring fresh produce, broad grocery categories, and dried fruit and nut assortments for cafeteria and nutritional services, but no solicitations explicitly name dried sapphire plums as a line item. One January 2026 opportunity from Santa Clara County for dried fruits and nuts to its Department of Correction Food Services at Elmwood Correctional Facility (ITB-PRC-FY26-0617, due February 5, 2026) requested dried raisins, cranberries, and tropical fruit mix alongside nuts, meeting the dried-fruit category but without specific sapphire plum identification. The solicitation landscape shows that institutional buyers—school nutrition programs serving elementary through high schools, county detention facilities, and state agencies—source dried fruits as components of broader food procurement contracts rather than as standalone line items.

Recent activity clusters in Georgia and Texas, where multiple school districts (Liberty County Schools, Douglas County Schools, Hancock County Schools, and Savannah-Chatham County Public School System in Georgia; Rockwood R-VI in Missouri; Fairfax County in Virginia) issued IFBs and RFPs for annual food supply contracts spanning hundreds of line items that may incidentally include dried fruit products. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) and County of Santa Clara represent the primary institutional buyers targeting dried fruit explicitly. State and local procurement offices soliciting under this code predominantly use IFB and RFP notice types with response dates clustered from February through June 2026. The code shows low direct visibility for sapphire plums specifically, suggesting that either procurement is conducted under higher-tier family or class codes that encompass broader dried fruit categories, or demand for this particular cultivar remains limited in state and local institutional purchasing relative to commodity dried fruits such as raisins, prunes, and mixed dried-fruit blends.