UNSPSC 50426416: Dried red alert tomatoes

The variety of tomatoes known as red alert tomatoes that have been dried for preservation.

UNSPSC 50426416 Dried red alert tomatoes (Commodity) does not reflect the scope of work state and local governments are actually soliciting under recent opportunities tagged to this code. The recent postings show state and local procurement concentrated on dried beans—kidney beans, black beans, pinto and red beans—for institutional food service, prison food programs, and child care meal services. Georgia Correctional Industries is procuring kidney beans in bulk (880-bag increments) under RFQ 92100ERFQ0020612027, due October 9, 2026, with all-inclusive delivery pricing and strict specification-sheet compliance requirements. The Oregon Department of Corrections is seeking approximately 42,500 pounds of dried pinto and red beans (IFB S2910000017705, due June 19, 2026) triple-cleaned to U.S. No. 2 grade standards, palletized FOB destination to Salem with a 10% combined Oregon-preference applied to fabrication and headquarters location. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice and the City of Edinburg procurement for a Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) round out the institutional-food landscape. The code appears to be a taxonomy mismatch—solicitations under it are buying dried beans for bulk institutional cooking, not dried red alert tomatoes specifically.

The issuing bodies are state correctional agencies (Georgia, Oregon, and Texas), state departments of corrections, and municipal food-service programs. Geographic activity clusters in the Southeast (Georgia), Pacific Northwest (Oregon), and South-Central (Texas) regions. The procurement modality is standard—RFQs and IFBs with firm fixed pricing, FOB destination, bulk delivery in palletized or bagged increments, and compliance with USDA grading standards, FDA regulations, and HACCP requirements. Incumbent and historical pricing data appear in the Oregon solicitation (Intersect USA at $0.493 per pound in August 2025). Evaluation criteria typically weight cost heavily, with geographic and processing-location preferences applied in some cases. The code's actual recent activity does not align with its nominal description; business development professionals should verify whether the taxonomy assignment is correct or whether the code is being misused for dried-bean procurement that belongs elsewhere in the UNSPSC structure.