UNSPSC 50423906: Dried musky gourd

The variety of gourds known as musky gourd that have been dried for preservation.

UNSPSC 50423906 Dried musky gourd is a Commodity code with minimal recent state and local procurement activity that bears no meaningful relationship to the code's stated definition. The recent opportunities tagged with this code instead solicit food service supplies across dramatically broader categories — fresh produce, proteins, dairy, grains, beverages, and miscellaneous groceries — for school nutrition programs, institutional food service, and child nutrition compliance. The mismatch between the code name and the actual work being solicited suggests either a data-entry error in the source system or a category that is not actively tracked through formal UNSPSC tagging in current state and local practice.

The issuing bodies span state departments (Oregon Department of Corrections, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Georgia Department of Education and allied entities, and the Illinois Department of Corrections), school districts (Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia; Rockwood R-VI School District in Missouri; Muscogee County, Savannah-Chatham, and Douglas County school districts in Georgia), and local government agencies (the City of Edinburg, Texas). Recent opportunities reflect a concentration in Georgia school districts (five solicitations across multiple counties and cooperative buying arrangements) and scattered activity in Texas, Oregon, Missouri, and Virginia. Representative recent work includes the Oregon Department of Corrections soliciting approximately 127,500 pounds of dried pinto beans (ITB S-29100-00016233, due March 20, 2026); the Texas Department of Criminal Justice sourcing 382 line items of cafeteria food products across five geographic areas via the Comptroller of Public Accounts Statewide Procurement Division (IFB 304T-26-300CF, extended to May 4, 2026); the Douglas County School System seeking a main-line food service distributor to supply approximately 32,000 meals daily with an estimated annual expenditure of approximately $9,000,000 (RFP 26-003, due February 18, 2026); and Fairfax County Public Schools establishing a Master Grocery K-12 term contract for supply to 52 schools and distribution points (IFB 2000004323, due April 27, 2026). Because the code itself appears disconnected from the work actually posted, pursue this code only if your firm competes in institutional food service broadly; the code provides no reliable targeting signal for narrower dried-legume procurement.