UNSPSC 50331809: Dried organic aurea barberries

The variety of organic barberries known as organic aurea barberries that have been dried for preservation.

UNSPSC 50331809 Dried organic aurea barberries is a Commodity code with minimal recent state and local procurement activity directly aligned to the code's scope. The recent opportunities tagged under this code predominantly solicit broad fresh produce, grocery, and food service supplies for school nutrition programs, correctional facilities, and institutional food service operations — not dried organic barberries specifically. Only one solicitation, the County of Santa Clara's ITB for dried fruits and nuts to the Elmwood Correctional Facility, addresses dried fruit products in scope; that procurement calls for dried raisins, cranberries, and tropical fruit mix on an all-or-none basis, with no mention of barberries. The remaining nine opportunities span fresh produce (apples, berries, vegetables, citrus), prepared entrees, proteins, dairy, and staple grocery items for school districts including Hancock County Schools (Georgia), Fairfax County Public Schools (Virginia), Rockwood R-VI School District (Missouri), Liberty County Board of Education (Georgia), Savannah-Chatham County Public School System (Georgia), and Douglas County School System (Georgia), plus the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and City of Bridgeport, Connecticut. These solicitations are issued as IFBs and RFPs with response dates ranging from late February through late June 2026, typically requiring firm pricing for annual contract periods running July 1 through June 30 of the following year.

The issuing-body mix is heavily concentrated in state and local school nutrition programs and correctional food services. School districts represent the largest category of buyers, with seven of the twelve opportunities sourced from K–12 systems across Georgia, Virginia, and Missouri; the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and County of Santa Clara's detention facility round out the institutional food service segment. Geographic activity clusters in the Southeast (Georgia in particular, with five school-district opportunities plus the state of Georgia itself), the Mid-Atlantic (Virginia), and the Midwest (Missouri), with a single West Coast opportunity in California. No recent opportunities demonstrate sustained demand for dried organic barberries as a line item or procurement focus. The code shows little relevance to current state and local institutional food service procurement practices; buyers under this taxonomy are sourcing commodity fresh produce, prepared foods, and staple grocery items rather than specialty dried fruits.