UNSPSC 50423612: Dried sugarhat endives

The variety of endives known as sugarhat endives that have been dried for preservation.

UNSPSC 50423612 Dried sugarhat endives (Commodity) shows minimal relevant recent activity. The code nominally describes a specific vegetable product, but the recent state and local opportunities tagged to it do not procure dried sugarhat endives at all. Instead, the opportunities span broad food service supply contracts — meal programs, prison food systems, school nutrition services, and produce procurement — encompassing hundreds of line items each, with dried endives appearing only incidentally if at all within those larger scopes. The mismatch between the code's specificity and the actual buying patterns suggests either tagging error or that this commodity sits outside the mainstream procurement activity recorded in the recent sample.

The issuing bodies include state departments (Oregon Department of Corrections, Texas Comptroller on behalf of Texas Department of Criminal Justice, State of Illinois, State of Georgia), school districts (Fairfax County Public Schools, Rockwood R-VI School District, Muscogee County School District, Savannah-Chatham County Public School System, Douglas County School System), and city nutrition programs (City of Edinburg, Texas). Geographic activity spans Texas, Georgia, Oregon, Illinois, Virginia, Missouri, and represents multi-state procurement volume in education and corrections food service. Representative opportunities include the Fairfax County Public Schools Master Grocery K-12 contract (IFB 2000004323, due April 27, 2026) establishing supply to 45 schools and seven distribution kitchens; the Rockwood R-VI School District Child Nutrition Services bid (due April 29, 2026) covering over 900 grocery line items for 2026–27; and the Oregon Department of Corrections pinto and red beans procurement (ITB S2910000017140, due June 19, 2026) for 42,500 pounds FOB destination to Salem. The City of Edinburg CACFP Meal Program (RFP 2026017, due August 4, 2026) applies a local-vendor preference under Texas Local Government Code Section 271.9051 and covers five supply categories for 400 children daily. This code does not report a concentrated market; activity reflects the distributed nature of state and local food procurement across dozens of independent purchasing bodies rather than a coherent commodity market for dried sugarhat endives specifically.