UNSPSC 50372916: Canned or jarred organic zahidi dates

The variety of organic dates known as organic zahidi dates that have been canned or jarred for preservation.

UNSPSC 50372916 Canned or jarred organic zahidi dates is a Commodity code that nominally describes a specific food product, but state and local procurement activity under this code shows little alignment with the code's narrow scope. The recent opportunities block contains no solicitations for organic zahidi dates or closely related specialty dried fruit commodities; instead, the tagged opportunities span a wide range of food service procurement—canned applesauce for corrections facilities, dried fruit bars for school districts, fresh produce for school nutrition programs, and broad grocery and food supply contracts for state institutions and school systems. The mismatch between the code name and the work actually being solicited suggests either data-classification drift or mis-tagging of opportunities at the source. Buyers pursuing this specific code should not expect to find regular demand signals for organic date products in state and local RFPs, RFQs, IFBs, and ITBs.

The recent opportunities tagged to this code reflect institutional food service procurement across multiple issuing-body types: state departments (Oregon Department of Corrections, Texas Health and Human Services Commission, State of Illinois), independent school districts (Austin ISD, Dallas ISD, Fairfax County Public Schools, Rockwood R-VI, Liberty County, Savannah-Chatham County), county school systems (Hancock County, Muscogee County, Douglas County), and municipal entities (City of Bridgeport). Opportunities cluster heavily in the school nutrition space, with multiple districts and cooperatives soliciting produce, grocery staples, and specialty food items on annual contracts running July through June. Geographic concentration appears in Texas (Dallas, El Paso), Georgia (Hancock County, Liberty County, Muscogee County, Douglas County, Savannah-Chatham County), Oregon (Salem), Connecticut (Bridgeport), Missouri (Rockwood), and Illinois. Representative recent solicitations include the Oregon Department of Corrections ITB S-29100-00017453 for 4,760 cases of canned applesauce due July 31, 2026 at $21.84 per case (historical price); the Douglas County School System RFP SN 26-004 for fresh produce and eggs across 30 districts with estimated annual spending of approximately $4.4 million for Area One, due March 4, 2026; and the Texas Health and Human Services Commission IFB HHS0017449 for food and consumable products for the El Paso State Supported Living Center with a prior-period historical value of $1.5 million, due July 13, 2026. The code shows active institutional food service procurement, but the scope diverges significantly from the organic zahidi date product the code nominally describes.