UNSPSC 50434811: Dried organic oyster mushrooms

The variety of organic mushrooms known as organic oyster mushrooms that have been dried for preservation.

UNSPSC 50434811 Dried organic oyster mushrooms is a Commodity-tier code with minimal recent state and local procurement activity directly aligned to its narrow product scope. The available opportunities show no solicitations explicitly requesting dried organic oyster mushrooms; instead, the code is tagged on broader food-service contracts where dried mushrooms, if any, represent a single line item among hundreds in multi-category grocery or produce procurements. School districts, state departments, and county jurisdictions do buy food supplies including specialty produce and dried goods for child nutrition, corrections, and institutional meal programs, but these items flow through master grocery contracts, fresh-produce solicitations, and general food-supply RFPs rather than standalone mushroom procurements. The code's narrow commodity definition does not match the actual purchasing patterns captured in the recent-opportunities record, where buying entities solicit across broad product categories (proteins, grains, vegetables, condiments, dairy) on a cost-per-serving or cost-per-case basis rather than itemizing specialty dried botanicals as distinct procurement lines.

Geographic activity spans Texas, Georgia, Oregon, Virginia, Illinois, and Missouri, driven primarily by school districts (Fairfax County Public Schools, Rockwood R-VI School District, Muscogee County Schools, Savannah-Chatham County Public Schools, Douglas County Schools), state corrections departments (Oregon Department of Corrections, Texas Department of Criminal Justice), and state nutrition agencies. The most recent high-volume opportunities—Fairfax County Public Schools' Master Grocery K-12 (due April 27, 2026), Rockwood R-VI's Child Nutrition Services Grocery Items (due April 29, 2026), and Texas TDCJ Cafeteria Food Products (extended to May 4, 2026)—all solicit via IFB or RFP on a line-item basis with hundreds of SKUs but do not isolate dried organic oyster mushrooms as a distinct procurement unit. Specialty mushroom suppliers targeting this code should verify that procurement offices actually tag mushroom-specific opportunities with this code or confirm whether dried mushrooms are instead sourced through broader fresh-produce, specialty-produce, or organic-foods channels that use parent or sibling UNSPSC categories.