UNSPSC 50326600: Dried saskatoon berries

The type of fruit known as saskatoon berries that have been dried for preservation.

UNSPSC 50326600 Dried saskatoon berries is a Class code that encompasses dried berry products and similar fruit commodities procured by state and local governments, though the recent record shows minimal activity directly aligned with this specific commodity. The opportunities tagged under this code overwhelmingly reflect school nutrition and institutional food service purchasing across fresh produce, proteins, grains, dairy, and prepared entrees—scope that extends well beyond dried berries or specialty fruit products. State and local buyers soliciting food products span school districts (Hancock County Schools in Georgia, Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia, Rockwood R-VI in Missouri, Liberty County Schools in Georgia, Savannah-Chatham County Schools in Georgia, and Douglas County Schools in Georgia), municipal procurement offices (City of Bridgeport, Connecticut), county correctional food services (County of Santa Clara, California), state agencies (State of Georgia), and state prison systems (Texas Department of Criminal Justice). School nutrition programs and food service distribution dominate the issuing-body mix, with district-level solicitations for annual K-12 grocery and produce supply far more common than commodity-specific or specialty-product procurements.

Geographic activity concentrates in Georgia, with four recent school district solicitations (Hancock County, Liberty County, Savannah-Chatham, and Douglas County cooperative) posting between February and June 2026, and secondary activity in Virginia (Fairfax County), Missouri (Rockwood), Connecticut (Bridgeport), California (Santa Clara County), and Texas (TDCJ). One record explicitly names dried prunes as a procurement item (Texas TDCJ IW236532, due February 20, 2026), and one names dried fruits and nuts more broadly (Santa Clara County ITB-PRC-FY26-0617, due February 5, 2026), but the balance of recent opportunities target broad grocery and fresh-produce supply rather than dried-commodity niches. The code shows activity primarily in school-year contract cycles (July 2026 through June 2027 performance periods posted in early-to-mid 2026), driven by annual nutrition budgeting. Buyers emphasize Buy American provisions, USDA compliance, firm fixed pricing, and multi-vendor awards based on line-item pricing. Saskatoon berries themselves do not appear in any of the recent solicitations reviewed; the code's current activity signal is weak, and procurement professionals should treat this code as relatively inactive for specialty dried-berry sourcing and instead monitor it only if their product suite aligns with broader institutional food-service supply to schools or correctional facilities.