UNSPSC 50426213: Dried marrow squash

The variety of summer squashes and summer pumpkins known as marrow squash that has been dried for preservation.

UNSPSC 50426213 Dried marrow squash (Commodity) represents a narrow product line, but state and local procurement activity under this code shows significant movement in institutional food service purchasing for school districts, correctional facilities, and child nutrition programs. Recent solicitations reveal that governments buy dried marrow squash primarily as part of bulk staple food procurement to support cafeteria meal preparation, CACFP programs, and incarcerated-population feeding operations. The issuing bodies are predominantly state corrections departments and school districts (including county and independent school systems), with occasional city-level child nutrition programs. Oregon's Department of Corrections, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, and multiple Georgia and Texas school districts have posted solicitations in the past four months encompassing this commodity within larger food supply bundles, indicating consistent demand across high-volume institutional kitchen operations.

Recent activity concentrates in Texas, Georgia, and Oregon. The City of Edinburg, Texas, requested food products including vegetables for a CACFP program serving 400 children (RFP 2026-017, due August 4, 2026); the Oregon Department of Corrections issued ITB S2910000017140 on June 5, 2026, for approximately 42,500 pounds of dried pinto and red beans (due June 19, 2026), reflecting the kind of dried-vegetable commodity purchasing common under this code; and the Texas Department of Criminal Justice procured cafeteria food products across multiple warehouse locations including vegetables and staples (IFB 304T-26-300CF, due May 4, 2026). School districts including Fairfax County Public Schools (Virginia), Rockwood R-VI (Missouri), and multiple Georgia systems (Muscogee County, Savannah-Chatham, Douglas County) have issued broad grocery and produce solicitations in March through May 2026 that encompass dried vegetables. The narrowness of the specific commodity and the bundling of dried marrow squash within larger food supply contracts means opportunities under this code appear most often as line items within RFPs and ITBs posted by state corrections systems and school nutrition programs; standalone solicitations for dried marrow squash alone are rare.