UNSPSC 50424810: Dried morels mushrooms

The variety of mushrooms known as morels mushrooms that have been dried for preservation.

UNSPSC 50424810 Dried morels mushrooms is a Commodity code, but the recent state and local opportunities posted under it show little direct relevance to dried morels. Instead, the code's recent activity predominantly reflects food procurement for school nutrition programs, correctional facilities, and child care services, where soliciting bodies are naming generic grocery and produce categories without specifically sourcing morels. The actual buying patterns visible in the posted opportunities include fresh produce (fruits, vegetables, eggs), dried legumes (pinto and red beans), proteins, dairy, grains, and prepared entrees—categories that far exceed the specificity of dried morels as a commodity line item. School districts, state departments of corrections, state food service agencies, and child nutrition programs dominate the issuing-body mix, with recent solicitations from Fairfax County Public Schools (Virginia), Rockwood R-VI School District (Missouri), Savannah-Chatham County Public School System (Georgia), Douglas County School System (Georgia), Muscogee County School District (Georgia), the Oregon Department of Corrections, the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts on behalf of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, the State of Illinois, the City of Edinburg (Texas), and the State of Georgia.

Geographic activity concentrates in the South and Southwest—Georgia, Texas, Missouri, and Virginia—with secondary presence in Oregon and Illinois. Representative recent opportunities include the Oregon Department of Corrections' ITB S2910000016233 for approximately 127,500 pounds of dried pinto beans (due March 20, 2026) and its follow-on ITB S2910000017140 for 42,500 pounds of dried pinto and red beans (due June 19, 2026, at 9:00 a.m. PST), the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts IFB 304T-26-300CF for cafeteria food products across five TDCJ warehouse locations (due May 4, 2026, extended via addendum), the City of Edinburg RFP 2026017 for CACFP meal program food and nonfood items serving 400 children (due August 4, 2026), Fairfax County Public Schools IFB 2000004323 for Master Grocery K-12 to 52 school locations and distribution centers (due April 27, 2026), and the Douglas County School System RFP SN 26-004 through GEC Buying Cooperative for fresh produce and eggs across 30 school districts with estimated annual spend of $5.5 million (due March 4, 2026). None of these solicitations explicitly specify dried morels or identify them as a required line item, signaling that the code assignment may be taxonomically misaligned with actual procurement intent in this market segment.