UNSPSC 50434817: Dried organic shimeji mushrooms

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

UNSPSC 50434817 Dried organic shimeji mushrooms is a Commodity code with limited direct recent activity under this specific product line; state and local government procurement of dried specialty mushrooms remains narrow and episodic. The code captures a niche ingredient category within broader food-service supply chains, but the recent-opportunities block shows no active solicitations specifically calling for dried organic shimeji mushrooms. Instead, the recent state and local procurement activity tagged under or near this code reflects general grocery and produce purchasing by school districts, correctional facilities, and nutrition programs—child care food programs, cafeteria operations, and fresh-produce contracts—where shimeji mushrooms would be an occasional line item within a much larger basket of staple foods if sourced at all.

Geographic activity centers on Texas, Georgia, Oregon, Missouri, and Virginia, where school districts, state departments of corrections, and child nutrition programs are actively procuring food supplies on annual or quarterly cycles. Representative recent opportunities include the City of Edinburg, Texas's CACFP Meal Program RFP (due August 4, 2026) for food and nonfood items serving 400 children daily; the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's Cafeteria Food Products IFB via the Comptroller's Statewide Procurement Division (due May 4, 2026) spanning 382 line items across multiple TDCJ warehouse locations; the Oregon Department of Corrections' dried-bean procurements in March 2026 and June 2026 for large-volume staple proteins; Fairfax County Public Schools' Master Grocery K-12 IFB (due April 27, 2026) for grocery supply to 45 schools and distribution kitchens; and the Douglas County School System's RFP for fresh produce and eggs through the GEC Buying Cooperative serving 30 Georgia school districts (due March 4, 2026). School nutrition programs and state agencies dominate the issuing-body mix, with school districts appearing most frequently and corrections departments showing consistent purchasing of dried proteins and bulk staples. The code itself does not appear to drive procurement—dried specialty mushrooms simply do not surface as a called-out line item in recent solicitations—suggesting that vendors in this product space would need to pursue opportunities through general grocery and fresh-produce contracts, cooperative-purchasing vehicles, or direct outreach to institutional food-service buyers rather than through solicitations coded specifically to this commodity.