UNSPSC 50331600: Dried organic apricots

The oval orange-colored fruit of a temperate-zone tree (prunus armeniaca) resembling the related peach and plum in flavor that have been dried for preservation.

UNSPSC 50331600 Dried organic apricots, a Class code, does not reflect the actual procurement activity tagged under it in recent state and local opportunities. The solicitations bearing this code overwhelmingly cover fresh produce, eggs, and bulk food commodity supply to school nutrition programs, detention facilities, and education institutions—not dried apricots specifically. State and local school districts and correctional agencies are the primary issuing bodies; school nutrition programs dominate the recent-opportunities block, with offerings from Hancock County Schools (Georgia), Fairfax County Public Schools (Virginia), Liberty County Schools (Georgia), Rockwood R-VI School District (Missouri), Savannah-Chatham County Public Schools (Georgia), and Douglas County Schools (Georgia), alongside correctional and county procurement for detention food services. These solicitations typically request sealed bids or proposals under IFB or RFP procedures with response dates clustering in late February through late June 2026, and they consistently emphasize Buy American provisions (51 percent domestic agricultural commodity content for processed products), HACCP compliance, USDA grade standards, firm fixed pricing, and delivery to multiple school sites or central distribution points on weekly or on-demand schedules.

Recent activity concentrates in Georgia and California, with secondary representation from Connecticut, Missouri, Texas, and Virginia. The Douglas County Schools RFP for fresh produce and eggs through the GEC Buying Cooperative (posted February 4, 2026, due March 4, 2026) covers 30 school districts across two Georgia areas with estimated annual spending of $4.4 million and $1.1 million respectively, with unit pricing tied to USDA Atlanta Terminal Wholesale Market Report pricing. The County of Santa Clara, California ITB for dried fruits and nuts (posted January 28, 2026, due February 5, 2026) supplies a detention facility with five line items on an all-or-none basis, including raisins, cranberries, tropical fruit mix, walnuts, and pecans, with a five-year contract term and five-percent local business preference. The mismatch between the code name (dried organic apricots) and the actual procurement scope (broad fresh and processed food supply to institutions) signals either systematic miscoding or category drift; dried fruits appear only incidentally within larger food-service contracts rather than as standalone commodity procurements. Practitioners should verify commodity-level coding before pursuing opportunities under this code.