UNSPSC 50423304: Dried wintercress

The variety of cresses known as wintercress that has been dried for preservation.

UNSPSC 50423304 Dried wintercress is a Commodity code, yet the recent state and local opportunities posted under it do not involve wintercress at all. Instead, the code shows activity tied to dried beans—kidney beans, pinto beans, red beans, and black beans—procured for institutional food service, correctional facilities, and child and adult care programs. The work is transactional procurement of commodity food staples in bulk quantities, with deliveries required to state warehouses, correctional institutions, or meal-service sites. Issuing bodies are state purchasing offices (Georgia, Oregon, Illinois) acting on behalf of specific agencies such as correctional industries and departments of corrections, combined with municipal governments and school districts conducting food-service procurement. Georgia Correctional Industries and the Oregon Department of Corrections appear as repeat buyers in the recent record.

Activity concentrates in the Southeast and Pacific Northwest, with recent opportunities from Georgia (two solicitations), Oregon (two solicitations), Illinois (one solicitation), and Texas (one solicitation). Representative recent work includes Georgia Correctional Industries' RFQ 92100ERFQ0020612027 for kidney beans due October 9, 2026, with deliveries in increments of 880 bags on an all-inclusive pricing basis; the Oregon Department of Corrections' bid S2910000017140 for approximately 42,500 pounds of dried pinto and red beans due June 19, 2026, with a combined 10% evaluation preference for Oregon-manufactured and Oregon-headquartered vendors and historical pricing at $0.493 per pound; and the City of Edinburg, Texas RFP 2026-017 for CACFP meal program supplies due August 4, 2026, which included dried beans as part of a five-category food and nonfood package for 400 children daily, with local-vendor preference under Texas Local Government Code Section 271.9051 for bids within 5% of the lowest price. The code shows a mismatch between its nominal scope and actual procurement activity; wintercress does not appear in any recent opportunity.