UNSPSC 50331901: Dried organic alpine bearberries

The variety of organic bearberries known as organic alpine bearberries that have been dried for preservation.

UNSPSC 50331901 Dried organic alpine bearberries is a Commodity code, but the recent state and local procurement activity under this code shows minimal alignment with the code's nominal scope. The source documents eleven recent solicitations tagged to this code, yet only one—the County of Santa Clara's Dried Fruits and Nuts procurement (ITB-PRC-FY26-0617, due February 5, 2026)—involves dried fruit products at all, and that solicitation calls for dried raisins, cranberries, tropical fruit mix, walnuts, and pecans rather than alpine bearberries. The remaining ten opportunities span fresh produce, eggs, comprehensive food supply contracts, and prepared entrees for school nutrition programs and correctional facilities, none of which are dried organic alpine bearberries or closely related specialty dried fruits. This mismatch suggests either a systematic coding error in the source data or that the code is seldom used for its intended commodity despite its UNSPSC designation.

The issuing bodies soliciting under this code include school districts (Hancock County Schools in Georgia, Savannah-Chatham County Public School System, Douglas County School System in Georgia, Liberty County Board of Education in Georgia, Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia, and Rockwood R-VI School District in Missouri), municipal or county departments (City of Bridgeport, Connecticut, and County of Santa Clara, California), state agencies (Texas Department of Criminal Justice and State of Georgia), and regional cooperatives (GEC Buying Cooperative serving 30 school districts in Georgia). Geographic activity spans Georgia, Connecticut, Missouri, Virginia, Texas, and California, with notable concentration in Georgia school nutrition programs. Representative opportunities include Hancock County Schools' fresh produce solicitation (IFB, due June 26, 2026), Fairfax County Public Schools' Master Grocery K-12 contract (IFB 2000004323, due April 27, 2026), and the County of Santa Clara's dried fruits and nuts procurement for its detention facility, which is the only sourcing event bearing substantive relevance to dried-fruit commodity categories. The disconnect between the code's stated scope and actual procurement activity suggests that firms pursuing dried organic alpine bearberry opportunities should verify direct sourcing patterns with individual issuing bodies rather than rely on this UNSPSC classification to signal relevant demand.