UNSPSC 50435525: Dried organic jalapeno peppers

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

UNSPSC 50435525 Dried organic jalapeno peppers (Commodity) captures a narrow ingredient category that state and local food service operations procure as part of broader meal-service and supply contracts rather than as standalone line items. The code sees minimal direct solicitation activity; recent state and local opportunities that reference dried peppers do so embedded within large multi-category food and supply procurements serving child nutrition, corrections, and school meal programs. Issuing bodies pursuing goods under this code include state corrections departments, school districts, and county child nutrition programs, all operating centralized food service operations that source ingredients through master grocery, produce, or cafeteria supply contracts. The work is fundamentally procurement of a single dried-vegetable commodity ingredient for use in institutional meal preparation, typically bid as one line among hundreds of food items within consolidated IFB, RFP, or ITB notices.

Recent activity appears concentrated in the South and West, with the Oregon Department of Corrections, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Georgia school districts (Douglas County, Muscogee County, Savannah-Chatham County), Texas school districts (Rockwood R-VI), and the City of Edinburg, Texas all posting food and supply contracts between January and July 2026. The Rockwood R-VI School District Child Nutrition Services (St. Louis County, Missouri) solicited grocery items including dried vegetables on April 29, 2026, through NUTRIKIDS electronic bidding; the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts on behalf of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice issued IFB No. 304T-26-300CF for cafeteria food products across multiple TDCJ warehouse locations with a May 4, 2026 response deadline; and the City of Edinburg, Texas solicited CACFP meal program supplies (beverages, paper goods, food products, janitorial supplies, and nonfood items) with an August 4, 2026 due date under RFP 2026-017 and a local-vendor preference applying when bids fall within 5% of the lowest bid. These solicitations treat dried peppers and similar dried-vegetable ingredients as line items within master supply or category-specific food contracts, not as standalone procurements. No opportunities in the source directly solicit dried organic jalapeno peppers as a named commodity.