UNSPSC 50423511: Dried long purple eggplants

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

UNSPSC 50423511 Dried long purple eggplants (Commodity) sees minimal recent state and local procurement activity, with no recent opportunities specifically soliciting this product line. The code nominally covers preserved eggplant products, but the recent opportunities tagged to this code—grocery contracts for school nutrition programs, corrections facilities, and child care operations—solicit broad food-supply categories spanning proteins, produce, dairy, grains, and staple items rather than specialty dried vegetables. The mismatch suggests either tagging error by procurement offices or that dried eggplants fall outside the active purchasing scope under this code at state and local level.

State and local buyers pursuing general grocery and food-service contracts across Texas, Georgia, Missouri, Oregon, and Virginia include school districts (Fairfax County Public Schools, Savannah-Chatham County Public School System, Muscogee County School District, Rockwood R-VI, Douglas County School System), corrections departments (Oregon Department of Corrections, Texas Department of Criminal Justice), and child care programs (City of Edinburg, Texas). The Oregon Department of Corrections has issued two recent ITBs for dried beans—127,500 pounds of pinto beans (S2910000016233, due March 20, 2026) and 42,500 pounds of pinto and red beans combined (S2910000017140, due June 19, 2026)—indicating institutional demand for dried legumes at scale, though these are commodity beans rather than eggplant. Fairfax County Public Schools (IFB 2000004323, due April 27, 2026) and Rockwood R-VI School District (IFB CHILDNUTRITIONSERVICESGROCERYITEMS20262027, due April 29, 2026) solicited master grocery and grocery-item contracts spanning hundreds of line items across multiple food categories with firm fixed pricing for 12-month terms. This code shows little evidence of active pursuit for the specific commodity it nominally describes.