UNSPSC 50335829: Dried organic empress plums

The variety of organic plums known as organic empress plums that have been dried for preservation.

UNSPSC 50335829 Dried organic empress plums is a Commodity code that reflects state and local procurement of dried fruit products for institutional food service, though the recent opportunities block shows no solicitations specifically for dried empress plums. Instead, the code appears in a dataset dominated by fresh produce, eggs, and broad-line grocery and food-service procurement for school nutrition programs, corrections facilities, and state food operations. The issuing bodies are primarily school districts (Hancock County Schools, Fairfax County Public Schools, Liberty County Board of Education, Savannah-Chatham County Public School System, Douglas County School System, and Rockwood R-VI School District), state agencies (Texas Department of Criminal Justice, State of Georgia), county governments (Santa Clara County), and city school boards (Bridgeport Board of Education). School nutrition represents the dominant use case, with districts procuring 400–900+ line items annually across fresh and frozen fruits, vegetables, proteins, grains, dairy, and prepared foods; corrections facilities and state institutions also buy processed and specialty food items. One contract—Santa Clara County's ITB-PRC-FY26-0617 for dried fruits and nuts at an Elmwood Correctional Facility—comes closest to the code's scope, covering dried raisins, cranberries, tropical fruit mix, walnuts, and pecans on a five-year term with 5,880 cases of raisins alone per year and estimated annual quantities in the thousands of cases for other items.

Recent activity clusters in Georgia, California, Texas, Connecticut, Missouri, and Virginia. The Santa Clara County dried-fruits-and-nuts solicitation (posted January 28, 2026, due February 5, 2026, ITB) is the only recent opportunity directly aligned with dried-fruit procurement; it carries a local-business preference of five percent and requires five years' prior experience, $1 million per-occurrence commercial general liability coverage, and monthly invoicing through the County's SCC-Ariba Procure-to-Pay system. School-nutrition RFPs dominate the block—Hancock County Schools (IFB, due June 26, 2026), Liberty County Board of Education (IFB, due April 29, 2026), Douglas County School System via GEC Buying Cooperative (RFP, due March 4, 2026 with $5.5 million estimated annual spend across 30 districts), and Fairfax County Public Schools (IFB 2000004323, due April 27, 2026)—but these solicit broad grocery assortments where dried fruits, if included, are line items among hundreds. No recent opportunities name dried empress plums specifically, and the code shows minimal dedicated recent activity in state and local procurement.