UNSPSC 50423509: Dried italian eggplants

The variety of eggplants known as italian eggplants that have been dried for preservation.

UNSPSC 50423509 Dried Italian eggplants, a Commodity code, sees minimal relevant activity in recent state and local procurement. The code nominally covers a narrow, specialty food item — dried Italian eggplants — but the recent opportunities tagged to this code do not align with that scope. Instead, the solicitations under this code reflect broad school nutrition and correctional food service procurement: meal programs serving hundreds of children daily, cafeteria supply contracts spanning hundreds of line items across proteins, dairy, grains, and produce, and bulk dried-bean purchases for correctional facilities. The mismatch suggests the code is either misapplied by issuing bodies or serves as a catch-all for dried vegetable categories that procurement offices lack more precise UNSPSC mapping for. The concrete work being bought — weekly grocery delivery to schools, produce supply to school nutrition programs, and bulk commodity food for state institutions — bears no direct relationship to dried Italian eggplants as a purchased item.

Issuing bodies include school districts (Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia, Rockwood R-VI in Missouri, Muscogee County and Savannah-Chatham County in Georgia, Douglas County Schools also in Georgia), state correctional departments (Oregon Department of Corrections), municipalities (City of Edinburg, Texas), and state food service operations (Illinois, Georgia, Texas). The geographic spread spans Texas, Missouri, Virginia, Georgia, Oregon, and Illinois. Recent opportunities include the City of Edinburg's Child and Adult Care Food Program RFP for 400 children daily (due August 4, 2026), the Oregon Department of Corrections' ITB for 42,500 pounds of dried pinto beans (due June 19, 2026), the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's IFB for cafeteria food products across five warehouse areas (response deadline May 4, 2026, extended from April 21), Fairfax County Public Schools' Master Grocery K-12 IFB covering 45 schools and distribution kitchens (due April 27, 2026), and Rockwood School District's grocery items bid for the 2026–27 school year (due April 29, 2026). The code shows no signal of relevance to dried Italian eggplant supply itself and should be considered inactive for that commodity line.