UNSPSC 50425902: Dried creation shallots

The variety of shallots known as creation shallots that have been dried for preservation.

UNSPSC 50425902 Dried creation shallots is a Commodity code that maps poorly to the recent state and local solicitation activity in the dataset. While the code nominally covers dehydrated shallot products, the most recent opportunities tagged under it include broad food supply contracts for school nutrition programs, corrections facilities, and child care services that encompass hundreds of line items spanning proteins, produce, dairy, grains, and prepared foods—not shallots specifically. The City of Edinburg, Texas, is soliciting food and nonfood items for a Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) serving 400 children daily (RFP 2026017, due August 4, 2026), and the Texas Department of Criminal Justice is procuring cafeteria food products across multiple warehouse locations via IFB 304T26300CF (due May 4, 2026, extended via addendum). The Oregon Department of Corrections has issued two separate ITBs for dried pinto and red beans (127,500 pounds total across two solicitations in March 2026 and June 2026), which are dried legume commodities but not shallots. These opportunities suggest the code may be misapplied or serve as a catch-all category for miscellaneous dried vegetables and staple food items rather than specifically tracking shallot purchases.

Issuing bodies include state corrections departments (Oregon ODOC, Texas TDCJ), state education procurement divisions (Georgia, Illinois), school districts (Fairfax County Public Schools Virginia, Rockwood R-VI Missouri, Muscogee County Georgia, Savannah-Chatham County Georgia, Douglas County Georgia), and municipal agencies (City of Edinburg Texas). The geographic spread concentrates in the South and West—Texas, Georgia, Oregon, Missouri, and Virginia dominate recent postings. No single repeat buyer appears more than twice in the dataset for this specific commodity code, and the Illinois state procurement noted in the June 2026 solicitation lacks sufficient detail to assess scope. The mismatch between the code's nominal scope (dried shallots) and the actual work being solicited (bulk food supply across diverse categories for institutional food service) signals that either vendors tagging opportunities under this code are conflating it with broader dried-vegetable or food-supply categories, or the code is rarely used in practice for its intended purpose.