UNSPSC 50424001: Dried china peas

The variety of green peas known as china peas that have been dried for preservation.

UNSPSC 50424001 Dried china peas is a Commodity code that covers legume procurement for institutional food service, but recent state and local solicitations show that state and local governments are buying dried pinto and red beans — not china peas — under this code designation. The Oregon Department of Corrections procured approximately 127,500 pounds of dried pinto beans in March 2026 and issued a second ITB in June 2026 for 42,500 pounds of combined pinto and red beans, both delivered to its Central Distribution Center in Salem with triple-cleaning and U.S. No. 2 or better grade standards. The broader institutional food-service landscape captured under dried-legume procurement spans state departments of corrections, school districts, and child nutrition agencies purchasing dried beans as staple proteins for meal programs serving inmate and student populations. Issuing bodies include state corrections departments (Oregon Department of Corrections), school districts of varying sizes (Rockwood R-VI School District in Missouri serving nearly 19,000 students; Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia; Muscogee County School District and Savannah-Chatham County Public School System in Georgia; Douglas County School System in Georgia), and city and county agencies operating child nutrition programs (City of Edinburg, Texas under its CACFP meal program). Dried-legume procurement appears concentrated among state correctional facilities and moderately sized to large school districts with centralized food service operations.

Recent activity spans Texas, Georgia, Missouri, Virginia, and Oregon, with the heaviest documented concentration in Georgia school districts and Oregon's state corrections system. Representative opportunities include the Oregon Department of Corrections ITB S2910000016233 for 127,500 pounds of dried pinto beans due March 20, 2026, with award to the lowest responsive bidder at U.S. No. 2 or better grade and a five percent Oregon-fabricated and five percent resident-vendor preference applied to evaluation; the Rockwood R-VI School District Child Nutrition Services IFB for over 900 grocery line items (including dried legumes) for the 2026–27 school year with electronic bids due April 29, 2026; and the Fairfax County Public Schools Master Grocery K-12 IFB 2000004323 due April 27, 2026, covering 76 minimum line items across 45 schools and seven distribution kitchens with a July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2027 contract term and four optional renewal years. Code-to-opportunity alignment shows a mismatch: the nominal scope is dried china peas, but recent solicitations explicitly solicit dried pinto beans, red beans, and broader grocery categories in which dried legumes are one line item among hundreds. The code shows modest recent activity in institutional food service but limited evidence of sole-source dried-china-pea procurement at the state and local level.