UNSPSC 50326304: Dried sutton rhubarb

The variety of rhubarb known as sutton rhubarb that has been dried for preservation.

UNSPSC 50326304 Dried Sutton Rhubarb, a Commodity code, covers dried rhubarb products procured by state and local governments, though recent state and local opportunities show minimal direct solicitation for this specific item. The recent contract opportunities in the source dataset—spanning school nutrition programs, correctional facilities, and county food services—focus predominantly on fresh produce, frozen proteins, dairy, grains, and prepared foods rather than dried rhubarb specifically. School districts including Hancock County Schools in Georgia, Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia, Liberty County Board of Education in Georgia, Savannah-Chatham County Public School System in Georgia, and Rockwood R-VI School District in Missouri have issued large-scale food procurement IFBs and RFPs covering hundreds of line items for their nutrition programs, but none of these solicitations identify dried rhubarb as a line item. Similarly, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice procurement for cafeteria food products to supply multiple TDCJ warehouse locations and the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Department correctional facility food services do not reference dried rhubarb. A separate TDCJ solicitation for whole, pitted, dried prunes (a dried fruit comparable to rhubarb in preservation method) suggests that state and local correctional and institutional food services do procure specialty dried fruits, but dried rhubarb does not appear in the recent competitive landscape.

The issuing bodies soliciting under broader food commodity codes in this dataset are predominantly school districts across Georgia, Missouri, Virginia, and Texas, along with state agencies (Georgia Department of State Services, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, and the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts), county governments (Santa Clara County, California), and one municipal school system (City of Bridgeport, Connecticut). The geographic concentration of recent activity spans the Southeast (Georgia, Florida), Midwest (Missouri), Mid-Atlantic (Virginia, Connecticut), and Southwest (Texas, California), with school nutrition programs representing the dominant buyer segment. However, the absence of dried rhubarb from any of these solicitations—despite their breadth and specificity in line-item detail—indicates minimal current demand for this commodity at the state and local level. Vendors pursuing this code should monitor institutional food service procurements in correctional facilities and large school districts, as these represent the most likely end-users for specialty dried fruits, but should recognize that recent competitive activity for dried rhubarb specifically is not evident in the available opportunities.