UNSPSC 50426317: Dried red jersey sweet potatoes

The variety of sweet potatoes known as red jersey sweet potatoes that have been dried for preservation.

UNSPSC 50426317 Dried red jersey sweet potatoes, a Commodity code, does not appear in recent state and local procurement activity. The source contains no state or local solicitations specifically requesting dried red jersey sweet potatoes. The recent opportunities tagged with adjacent UNSPSC food-service codes request dried pinto and red beans (Oregon Department of Corrections), fresh produce (multiple school districts and state agencies in Georgia and Texas), cafeteria food products (Texas Department of Criminal Justice), grocery items (school districts in Virginia, Missouri, Georgia), and broader food supply and distribution services, but none isolate dried red jersey sweet potatoes as a line item or procurement focus.

The absence of solicitation activity for this commodity does not indicate that state and local governments never purchase dried red jersey sweet potatoes; rather, these items typically appear as one line among hundreds in larger food-service RFPs or IFBs, embedded in catch-all categories such as "vegetables," "produce," "food products," or "snacks" rather than called out by cultivar. Any pursuit of this commodity would require identifying school districts, corrections facilities, child nutrition programs, and institutional food service operations in states with active procurement volume (evidenced in the source by Texas, Georgia, Virginia, Missouri, and Oregon), monitoring their regular food-service solicitations, and screening bid documents for the specific item as a sub-line rather than expecting it to anchor a standalone opportunity.