UNSPSC 50433900: Dried organic gourds

The type of organic vegetable known as organic gourds that has been dried for preservation.

UNSPSC 50433900 Dried organic gourds, a Class code, represents a narrow commodity category with minimal recent state and local procurement activity. The code nominally describes dried gourds used as decorative or culinary items, but the recent solicitations tagged under it focus almost entirely on bulk food procurement for school nutrition programs, correctional facilities, and child care operations—dried beans, fresh produce, and general grocery items that bear little practical relationship to the code's stated scope. State and local buyers under this code include school districts (Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia, Rockwood R-VI School District in Missouri, Muscogee County and Savannah-Chatham County school systems in Georgia, and Douglas County School System in Georgia), state corrections departments (Oregon Department of Corrections, Texas Department of Criminal Justice), state purchasing offices (Georgia, Illinois), and municipal nutrition programs (City of Edinburg, Texas; Muscogee County and other Georgia counties). The mix is heavily weighted toward K-12 school nutrition procurement and correctional-facility food service contracting, with occasional state-level cooperative purchasing.

Geographic activity concentrates in the Southeast (Georgia, Missouri) and the Pacific Northwest (Oregon), with secondary activity in Texas and Virginia. Representative recent opportunities include the Oregon Department of Corrections' March 2026 ITB for approximately 127,500 pounds of dried pinto beans, due March 20, 2026 at 9:00 a.m. PST; Fairfax County Public Schools' April 2026 IFB 2000004323 for Master Grocery K-12 supplies, due April 27, 2026; Rockwood R-VI School District's March 2026 electronic bid solicitation for over 900 grocery line items, due April 29, 2026 at 9:45 a.m. CDT; the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's May 2026 IFB 304T-26-300CF for cafeteria food products across multiple distribution points, due May 4, 2026; and the Douglas County School System's February 2026 RFP 26-003 for food supply and distribution services supporting approximately 32,000 meals daily, due February 18, 2026. The code shows no meaningful activity for dried gourds themselves and appears to be a taxonomy mismatch in state procurement systems, making pursuit unlikely unless your firm supplies bulk dried legumes or commodity food products to institutional food service operations.