UNSPSC 50434121: Dried organic sage

The variety of organic herbs known as organic sage that has been dried for preservation.

UNSPSC 50434121 Dried organic sage, a Commodity code, sees sparse recent activity in state and local procurement focused on foodservice supply. The code's nominal scope—dried culinary herbs—does not align with the recent opportunities tagged under it. The Oregon Department of Corrections has solicited dried pinto and red beans (approximately 42,500 and 127,500 pounds respectively), and the Illinois Department of Corrections has issued a weekly food order solicitation for July through September; neither procurement involves dried sage or specialty herbs. The City of Edinburg, Texas, the Rockwood R-VI School District in Missouri, and multiple Georgia school districts (Muscogee County, Savannah-Chatham County, Douglas County) have posted solicitations for broader foodservice supplies—fresh produce, eggs, fresh fruits and vegetables, cafeteria staples, and grocery items—that encompass dozens of line items across multiple categories, but dried sage does not appear as a specified commodity in the available summaries. Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia solicited a Master Grocery K-12 contract covering food products for 45 schools and distribution kitchens, and the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, through the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts Statewide Procurement Division, requested approximately 382 line items of cafeteria food products for TDCJ warehouse locations; neither identifies specialty dried herbs as a targeted procurement line item.

The recent opportunities under this code show no geographic concentration and no repeat issuing bodies pursuing dried sage specifically. State and local foodservice procurement in Texas, Georgia, Missouri, Virginia, Oregon, and Illinois remains active, with school districts, correctional agencies, and municipal programs regularly issuing RFPs, RFQs, IFBs, and ITBs for grocery staples and fresh produce, but the tagged code does not reflect the actual scope of current buying activity. Vendors targeting this code should verify that state and local procurement offices have miscoded these opportunities; dried sage is not appearing as a distinct procurement line in the available recent solicitations, and the code's utility for business development depends on whether public buyers are actively disaggregating specialty dried herbs from broader grocery or produce categories in their sourcing activities.