UNSPSC 50435508: Dried organic korean peppers

The variety of organic peppers known as organic korean peppers that have been dried for preservation.

UNSPSC 50435508 Dried organic korean peppers is a Commodity code, but the recent state and local opportunities posted under it do not match its nominal scope. Instead, the solicitations reveal that state and local procurement offices are using this code to tag bulk dried-bean procurements for institutional food service — including kidney beans, black beans, and pinto and red beans — intended for correctional facilities, child care programs, schools, and state agency kitchens. The work involves responding to IFBs and RFQs with firm, all-inclusive pricing (freight and delivery embedded); meeting USDA grading standards, food-safety certifications, and moisture-content or foreign-material thresholds; and delivering product on FOB Destination terms in bulk quantities (typically pallet loads or multiple hundredweight increments) to institutional distribution centers or meal-service locations. Issuing bodies include state departments of corrections and purchasing offices, cities operating child care food programs, and state agencies coordinating food supply for institutional kitchens.

The code shows recent activity concentrated in Georgia, Oregon, Texas, and Illinois. The Oregon Department of Corrections issued an RFQ on June 5, 2026 (bids due June 19) for approximately 42,500 pounds of dried pinto and red beans, triple-cleaned, with a combined 10% evaluation preference for Oregon-manufactured and Oregon-headquartered suppliers and a historical incumbent price of $0.493 per pound. Georgia Correctional Industries posted an RFQ on October 2, 2026 (bids due October 9) for kidney beans in 880-bag increments, requiring all-inclusive delivery pricing with no separate freight reimbursement. The Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, on behalf of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, issued an IFB in May 2026 for cafeteria food products spanning 382 line items (including dried beans among other staples) with delivery to six TDCJ distribution points across Texas and contract term through August 31, 2027 with two optional one-year renewals. The City of Edinburg, Texas posted an RFP in August 2026 for CACFP meal-program supplies (beverages, paper goods, food products, janitorial supplies) serving approximately 400 children daily, with local-vendor preference under Texas Local Government Code Section 271.9051 and daily delivery required before noon. The code shows little recent relevant activity — the mismatch between the code name (dried organic korean peppers) and the actual procurements (generic dried beans for institutional food service) signals that this code may be a catch-all categorization rather than a targeted commodity classification.