UNSPSC 50327014: Dried hawthorn

The type of fruit known as hawthorn that has been dried for preservation.

UNSPSC 50327014 Dried hawthorn is a Commodity code that sits at the base of the taxonomy, but recent state and local procurement activity shows little relevant buying under this specific line item. The two recent opportunities explicitly referencing dried hawthorn or closely related dried fruits and nuts procurement — a Santa Clara County Sheriff's Department solicitation for dried fruits and nuts (raisins, cranberries, tropical fruit mix, walnuts, and pecans) and a Texas Department of Criminal Justice bid for whole dried prunes — represent the only substantive activity in the dataset. The Santa Clara County ITB, issued January 28, 2026, with bids due February 5, 2026, seeks dried raisins, dried cranberries, dried tropical fruit mix, walnuts, and pecans for the Elmwood Correctional Facility on an all-or-none basis with a five-year contract term and a local business preference of five percent. The TDCJ procurement (Bid No. IW236532), posted April 23, 2026, for whole pitted dried prunes in U.S. Grade B quality with 1,400-box minimum order to the Corpus Christi location, represents single-commodity institutional food procurement. Both solicitations target correctional and detention facilities rather than school districts, which dominate the broader food procurement landscape in state and local government.

The issuing bodies purchasing dried hawthorn and allied dried fruits and nuts are primarily state departments of corrections and county sheriffs' offices managing detention facility food services; no school districts, transit authorities, or municipal departments appear in the recent opportunities under this code. Geographic activity is sparse and scattered — Santa Clara County in California and Texas for the identified opportunities, with no concentration visible across other states or regions. The mismatch between the code's nominal scope (dried hawthorn specifically) and the actual procurement mix (dried fruits, nuts, and prunes for institutional food service) suggests that buyers are tagging commodity food line items to parent dried-fruit codes or that the code rarely appears in state and local solicitations relative to broader food supply contracts. Vendors pursuing this code should recognize that opportunities are episodic, institution-specific, and typically bundled within larger correctional facility food-service procurements rather than standalone dried-fruit purchases.