UNSPSC 50335700: Dried organic plucots

The type of organic fruit known as organic plucots that have been dried for preservation.

UNSPSC 50335700 Dried organic plucots, a Class code, represents a narrow commodity category that state and local governments procure almost exclusively through school nutrition programs and correctional food services. Recent solicitations show dried fruit procurement driven by USDA school lunch compliance and nutritional standards requiring low-sugar, minimal-ingredient products; the code itself names plucots specifically, but actual school and correctional food service bids span broader dried fruit categories including raisins, cranberries, tropical fruit blends, and mixed dried fruits meeting federal nutrition thresholds of 110–125 calories per serving with zero added sugars. Issuing bodies are predominantly school districts (elementary through high school systems serving daily meal programs) and county correctional facilities; state departments and regional cooperative buying vehicles occasionally aggregate demand across multiple districts. School districts dominate the recent opportunity pipeline, with solicitations structured as firm-fixed-price annual contracts running July 1 through June 30 of the following year and renewable for multiple one-year terms, while correctional facilities issue longer-term contracts (commonly five years) with optional annual price adjustments capped at bidder-specified percentages.

Geographic activity concentrates in Georgia and California, with secondary presence in Texas, Connecticut, Missouri, and Virginia. Recent representative opportunities include the County of Santa Clara, California ITB-PRC-FY26-0617 (Dried Fruits and Nuts, due February 5, 2026) supplying the Elmwood Correctional Facility with five line items of dried raisins, cranberries, tropical fruit blend, walnuts, and pecans on a five-year all-or-none contract basis; Hancock County Board of Education (Hancock County Schools Nutrition Fresh Produce SY27, IFB due June 26, 2026), which included specialty dried and fresh produce among 200-plus line items; and Douglas County School System in Georgia (RFP SN 26-004, due March 4, 2026) for fresh produce and eggs across 30 school districts with estimated annual spending of $4.4 million for Area One. Buy American provisions requiring minimum 51 percent domestic agricultural commodity content in processed products appear consistently across school district RFPs and IFBs, and HACCP plans with 24/7 recall accessibility are standard compliance requirements. No recent opportunities target the dried plucot commodity specifically; activity under this code remains minimal relative to broader dried-fruit and fresh-produce categories that subsume it.