UNSPSC 50436207: Dried organic delicious squash

The variety of organic summer squashes and summer pumpkins known as organic delicious squash that has been dried for preservation.

UNSPSC 50436207 Dried organic delicious squash (Commodity) appears rarely in recent state and local procurement activity. The code nominally describes a specific produce item, but the recent opportunities in the source block show little alignment with dried squash procurement; instead, they reflect broad food-service contracts spanning proteins, grains, produce, beverages, and supplies. The Oregon Department of Corrections has solicited dried beans twice in the past four months (pinto and mixed pinto-red varieties), which represents the closest match to dried-produce purchasing, but neither specifically names squash. State and local food procurement is dominated by school nutrition programs, corrections facilities, and child-care operations that source via master grocery contracts, cooperative purchasing vehicles, and commodity-specific ITBs. The issuing bodies are predominantly school districts (Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia, Rockwood R-VI in Missouri, Muscogee County and Savannah-Chatham County in Georgia, Douglas County in Georgia), state corrections departments (Oregon DOC, Texas TDCJ), state procurement offices on behalf of other agencies (Georgia, Illinois), and municipal nutrition programs (City of Edinburg, Texas, through its CACFP meal service). A few entities appear more than once: Douglas County School System issued two RFPs for food services in January and February 2026; Georgia issued separate solicitations for produce and general kitchen products in March and May 2026; and Oregon DOC issued two dried-bean bids in March and June 2026.

Geographic activity concentrates in Texas, Georgia, Oregon, Missouri, and Virginia. Texas procurement includes the City of Edinburg's CACFP meal RFP (due August 4, 2026) and the Texas TDCJ's cafeteria food products IFB (extended to May 4, 2026), both reflecting large institutional food-service operations. Georgia shows sustained activity across multiple school districts (Douglas County, Muscogee County, Savannah-Chatham County) and state-level solicitations for produce and kitchen products through its procurement portal. Oregon DOC's dried-bean procurements (ITBs for 127,500 pounds and 42,500 pounds, due March 20 and June 19, 2026) are among the few commodity-specific bids that approach the squash code's nominal scope. Virginia's Fairfax County Public Schools issued a master grocery K-12 IFB (due April 27, 2026) covering 45 schools and seven distribution kitchens with 76 minimum line items required. Missouri's Rockwood School District solicited over 900 grocery line items for the 2026–27 school year (due April 29, 2026). None of these solicitations explicitly named dried squash as a line item or emphasis category; the code shows no active market signal for this specific commodity in the recent sample.