UNSPSC 50425517: Dried cayenne peppers

The variety of peppers known as cayenne peppers that have been dried for preservation.

UNSPSC 50425517 Dried cayenne peppers (Commodity) appears rarely in recent state and local procurement activity; the solicitations posted under this code predominantly involve other dried legumes and broader institutional food supplies rather than cayenne peppers specifically. Georgia Correctional Industries, the Oregon Department of Corrections, and the State of Illinois have solicited dried beans—kidney beans, black beans, and pinto and red beans—for institutional meal service and kitchen operations. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice, through the Texas Comptroller's Statewide Procurement Division, issued a broad IFB for cafeteria food products spanning proteins, dairy, grains, beverages, and condiments. The City of Edinburg, Texas, solicited food and nonfood items for a Child and Adult Care Food Program meal operation. Issuing bodies include state correctional agencies, state departments, municipalities, and specialized food-service programs. The code mismatch suggests that state and local procurement offices may tag institutional food-supply solicitations to this code without regard to the specific commodity name, or that the code's intended scope differs materially from current tagging practice.

Geographic activity centers on the Southeast and Pacific Northwest: Georgia (two opportunities), Oregon (two opportunities), with additional solicitations from Texas, Illinois, and Texas municipalities. Recent opportunities span June through October 2026. Oregon's ODOC solicitation for approximately 42,500 pounds of dried pinto and red beans (due June 19, 2026, RFQ through OregonBuys) specified triple-cleaned beans, U.S. No. 2 or better grade, FOB destination to Salem with a 45-day delivery window, and included a combined 10% Oregon-preference evaluation adder; the historical price reference was $0.493 per pound as of August 2025. Georgia Correctional Industries' kidney-beans solicitation (IFB 92100ERFQ0020612027, due October 9, 2026) required 880-bag increments with all-inclusive pricing and electronic PDF submission. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice IFB (304T26300CF, due May 4, 2026, extended via addendum) covered 382 line items for multiple warehouse locations with single-vendor-per-line-item awards and FOB Destination pricing to six distribution points. Cayenne pepper specific opportunities do not appear in the recent record.