UNSPSC 50434700: Dried organic malanga

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

UNSPSC 50434700 Dried organic malanga (Class) shows minimal recent state and local procurement activity aligned with its nominal scope. The single recent opportunity bearing the code—the Oregon Department of Corrections' March 2026 and June 2026 bids for dried pinto and red beans totaling approximately 170,000 pounds—addresses dried legumes rather than dried malanga root vegetables, signaling a taxonomy mismatch. The remaining ten opportunities in the dataset span fresh produce procurement, grocery supply contracts, school nutrition meal programs, and institutional food service across Texas, Georgia, Missouri, Virginia, and Oregon, but none reference dried malanga or closely related dried root vegetables. School districts, state departments of corrections, and municipal child care programs dominate the issuing bodies, with contract values estimated in the millions for multi-item procurement but with no specific budget figures disclosed for individual commodity lines.

State and local buyers acquiring food products under this code do so primarily through IFB and RFP vehicles, with response windows ranging from two to eight weeks and firm fixed pricing requirements across contract terms running twelve to twenty-seven months. The Oregon Department of Corrections' dried bean procurements (ITB S2910000016233, due March 20, 2026; ITB S2910000017140, due June 19, 2026) and the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's IFB 304T-26-300CF for cafeteria food products (response extended to May 4, 2026) illustrate the institutional food service volume in the class, but none explicitly solicits dried malanga. The code shows no identifiable recent opportunities tied to dried organic malanga procurement; pursuing this code requires either direct outreach to institutional food service and school nutrition programs to establish demand or repositioning toward the dried legume and grain commodities that actually move in state and local procurement today.