UNSPSC 50326703: Dried ever bearing strawberries

The variety of strawberries known as ever bearing strawberries that have been dried for preservation.

UNSPSC 50326703 Dried ever bearing strawberries is a Commodity code that captures state and local procurement of dried strawberry products, though the recent opportunities block shows minimal direct purchasing activity under this specific code. School districts dominate the issuing bodies across recent solicitations, with secondary activity from county correction facilities and state criminal justice agencies; school nutrition programs consistently drive volume through master grocery contracts and dedicated produce procurement across the academic year. The scope of work reflects mixed dried-fruit purchasing within larger food-service aggregations: while dried strawberries appear occasionally within dried-fruit line items (notably in Santa Clara County's Elmwood Correctional Facility dried-fruits-and-nuts ITB, which aggregated dried raisins, cranberries, tropical fruit mix, walnuts, and pecans on an all-or-none basis), the recent record shows school districts acquiring fresh strawberries far more frequently than dried variants—evidenced in Hancock County Schools' 200-item fresh-produce IFB, Fairfax County Public Schools' master grocery K-12 contract, and Douglas County's fresh-produce RFP covering estimated annual spending of $4.4 million in Area One alone. Where dried fruits are solicited, they typically anchor broader commodity bundles rather than standalone requests.

Recent activity clusters in Georgia and the broader Southeast, with secondary presence in California, Connecticut, Texas, Missouri, and Virginia. Georgia school districts (Hancock County, Liberty County, Douglas County, and Savannah-Chatham) issued five separate food solicitations between February and June 2026, establishing the state as the lead jurisdiction for school nutrition procurement; the Savannah-Chatham County IFB for fresh produce (72 line items, bid 26-34, due April 23, 2026) and Douglas County's RFP for fresh produce and eggs through the GEC Buying Cooperative (estimated $4.4 million Area One, proposals due March 4, 2026) represent representative opportunities in the fresh category. For dried fruits specifically, Santa Clara County's ITB-PRC-FY26-0617 for dried fruits and nuts (five line items including dried raisins, cranberries, and tropical fruit mix; due February 5, 2026) represents the clearest recent signal, though it paired dried strawberries' functional equivalent with other dried fruit and nut staples rather than isolating them. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice's IFB 304T-26-300CF for cafeteria food products (382 line items, due May 4, 2026) and Rockwood R-VI School District's solicitation for over 900 grocery items (due April 29, 2026) show large-volume food procurement where dried fruits could anchor line items, but neither document names dried strawberries explicitly. Activity suggests school meal contracts dominate state and local dried-fruit acquisition, with procurement distributed across small school districts, large county systems, and regional cooperatives—a fragmented buyer base with seasonal volume concentration in late spring when contracts reset for the new academic year beginning July 1.