UNSPSC 50436114: Dried organic trinidad spinach

The variety of organic spinach known as organic trinidad spinach that has been dried for preservation.

UNSPSC 50436114 Dried organic trinidad spinach, a Commodity code, does not reflect the recent state and local procurement activity indexed under it. The code nominally describes a single dried-spinach product variant, yet the recent solicitations posted under this code span broad institutional food service — meal programs for children in care facilities, correctional institutions, public schools, and state agencies — with product categories ranging from proteins and dairy to produce, beverages, and kitchen supplies. The mismatch between the code's narrow product name and the breadth of actual purchasing suggests either miscoding by issuing bodies or a legacy taxonomy misalignment that has accumulated diverse food-procurement activity under a single commodity identifier.

State and local issuing bodies active under this code include school districts (Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia; Rockwood R-VI in Missouri; Savannah-Chatham County, Douglas County, and Muscogee County in Georgia), state agencies (the Texas Department of Criminal Justice via the Comptroller of Public Accounts; the Oregon Department of Corrections; the State of Illinois; and the State of Georgia), city governments (the City of Edinburg, Texas), and county school systems. The geographic concentration spans Texas, Virginia, Missouri, Georgia, and Oregon, with overlapping activity in Georgia (four recent school-district solicitations alone). Institutional food service is the dominant use case: the Texas Department of Criminal Justice procures cafeteria food products across five distribution warehouses; the Oregon Department of Corrections buys dried beans in bulk for inmate meals; school districts solicit master grocery contracts, fresh produce, and eggs for child nutrition programs serving thousands of students daily; and the City of Edinburg solicits food and nonfood items for a Child and Adult Care Food Program serving 400 children. Representative recent solicitations include the Texas Comptroller's IFB 304T-26-300CF for cafeteria food products (response due May 4, 2026), the Douglas County School System's RFP SN 26-003 for food supply and distribution services serving 32,000 meals daily with an estimated $9 million annual expenditure (response due February 18, 2026), Fairfax County Public Schools' Master Grocery K-12 IFB covering weekly deliveries to 45 schools and seven distribution kitchens (response due April 27, 2026), and the Muscogee County School District's ITB for fresh produce with pricing tied to USDA market indices (response due April 27, 2026).