UNSPSC 50421843: Dried nuna beans

The variety of beans known as nuna beans that have been dried for preservation.

UNSPSC 50421843 Dried nuna beans, a Commodity code, encompasses legume protein staples that state and local governments procure primarily for institutional food service operations—school districts, corrections departments, and child nutrition programs. The code sees active solicitation across multiple institutional food service categories, with dried beans appearing as line items within broader grocery, cafeteria, and meal-program procurement cycles rather than as standalone specialty buys. State corrections departments and school districts dominate the issuing-body mix, supplemented by municipal and county child nutrition programs. The Oregon Department of Corrections has posted two separate ITB solicitations for dried pinto and red beans (March 2026 and June 2026), signaling recurring commodity procurement tied to institutional meal cycles. Fairfax County Public Schools, Rockwood R-VI School District in Missouri, Muscogee County School System in Georgia, Savannah-Chatham County Public Schools in Georgia, and Douglas County School System in Georgia all appear as recent buyers of grocery staples and produce that would include dried beans as component items. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice, through the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts Statewide Procurement Division, solicited cafeteria food products (May 2026) encompassing diverse proteins and staples across multiple TDCJ warehouse distribution points. The City of Edinburg, Texas, and the Boys & Girls Club both posted CACFP meal-program procurements in July 2026 that reference food products including proteins and staples required to meet CACFP and Texas Department of Agriculture nutritional standards.

Geographic activity concentrates in Texas, Georgia, and Oregon based on recent solicitation postings. The Oregon Department of Corrections represents the most specific institutional buyer for dried beans, with two publicly posted solicitations within the prior four months requesting approximately 42,500 pounds (June 2026, ITB S2910000017140, due June 19, 2026) and 127,500 pounds (March 2026, ITB S2910000016233, due March 20, 2026) of triple-cleaned dried pinto beans meeting U.S. No. 2 or better grade standards, FOB destination to Salem with firm fixed pricing per pound and a five percent Oregon-fabricated and five percent Oregon-headquartered bidder preference applied to evaluation. Texas school districts and the TDCJ represent the second concentration, with solicitations from Rockwood R-VI (Missouri), Muscogee County, Savannah-Chatham, and Douglas County (all Georgia) posting through spring 2026. The City of Edinburg CACFP solicitation (RFP 2026-017, due August 4, 2026) includes dried beans within a broader five-category food and nonfood supply scope for 400 children, subject to local vendor preference under Texas Local Government Code Section 271.9051 (vendors within Edinburg within 5% of lowest bid receive preference). Broader school-district grocery procurements from Fairfax County Public Schools (Master Grocery K-12, IFB 2000004323, due April 27, 2026) and the Douglas County cooperative RFP (SN 26-003 and SN 26-004 covering approximately $4.4 million Area One and $1.1 million Area Two) suggest beans are embedded within larger commodity contracts rather than independently competed. Recent activity shows dried beans solicited at scale by corrections and large school systems on annual or multi-year cycles, with FOB destination delivery, grade-standard compliance, and firm fixed pricing as standard terms.