UNSPSC 50421738: Dried hickson avocados

The variety of avocados known as hickson avocados that have been dried for preservation.

UNSPSC 50421738 Dried hickson avocados, a Commodity code, nominally addresses a specific dried fruit product but shows little recent state and local procurement activity aligned with this scope; the one cited code-tagged opportunity—the Oregon Department of Corrections' March 2026 and June 2026 invitations to bid for dried pinto and red beans—treats the code as a vehicle for purchasing staple dried legumes rather than specialty dried avocados. State and local buyers across education, corrections, and child nutrition programs are actively procuring dried beans and broader food-supply items under codes in this family, but the specific commodity of dried hickson avocados does not appear in the recent posted solicitations. The geographic spread of opportunities in the source runs across Texas, Illinois, Oregon, Georgia, Missouri, and Virginia, with school districts and state departments as the dominant issuing bodies.

The source records thirteen separate opportunities across February through July 2026, but only two are actually tagged to this code: the Oregon Department of Corrections' requests for approximately 42,500 to 127,500 pounds of dried pinto and red beans (ITBs S2910000016233 and S2910000017140, with response dates March 20, 2026, and June 19, 2026, respectively). The remaining opportunities—including the Texas Comptroller's cafeteria food products IFB for TDCJ, school nutrition contracts in Missouri, Georgia, and Virginia, and child-nutrition-program procurements in Texas and Illinois—address broader grocery and fresh-produce categories but are indexed under different UNSPSC codes. The mismatch suggests either classification drift in how state and local systems tag commodity acquisitions or that the code's nominal scope does not align with active procurement demand. Vendors pursuing food-supply work in state and local markets should monitor how individual jurisdictions classify dried goods and specialty items, as the tagging practice appears inconsistent.