UNSPSC 50372518: Canned or jarred organic ruby bing cherries

The variety of organic cherries known as organic ruby bing cherries that have been canned or jarred for preservation.

UNSPSC 50372518 Canned or jarred organic ruby bing cherries is a Commodity code that does not align with the state and local procurement activity recently posted under this designation. The source opportunities tagged with this code span canned applesauce (Oregon Department of Corrections), dried fruit bars and apple crisps (Austin ISD), fresh produce (multiple Georgia school districts, Douglas County cooperative), and broad food supply contracts for state institutions and school nutrition programs across Oregon, Texas, Georgia, Connecticut, and Missouri—none centered on canned organic cherry products. The mismatch between the code's specific commodity name and the generalist food-service procurement it actually tags in practice suggests either systematic miscoding or use of this code as a placeholder within broader food-procurement hierarchies that state and local systems have not reconciled with UNSPSC precision.

Issuing bodies are predominantly school districts (Austin ISD, Hancock County Schools, Rockwood R-VI, Liberty County Schools, Savannah-Chatham County, Douglas County Schools, Fairfax County Public Schools) and state institutions (Oregon Department of Corrections, Texas HHSC, Illinois Chief Procurement Office, Texas TDCJ, Connecticut Department of Public Purchases serving the Board of Education). A handful of solicitations serve multi-district cooperatives (GEC cooperative spanning 30 Georgia districts). The recent opportunities reflect annual or multi-year term contracts for food service supply, with ITB, RFP, and RFQ notice types and response dates concentrated between February and July 2026. Geographic concentration is heaviest in Georgia (school districts and cooperative purchasing), Texas (state institutions and school districts), Oregon (state corrections), and secondary activity in Connecticut, Illinois, and Missouri. Representative recent solicitations include the Oregon Department of Corrections ITB S-29100-00017453 for canned applesauce (4,760 cases, due July 31, 2026, with $21.84 historical pricing per case), the Texas HHSC IFB for supplemental food and consumables statewide (210 line items, up to $4.5 million over three years), and the Douglas County cooperative RFP SN 26-004 for fresh produce and eggs across 30 Georgia school districts (approximately $5.5 million estimated annual spending). The code shows robust activity but primarily in the broader food-supply and commodity-nutrition-service space rather than in canned organic cherry procurement specifically.