UNSPSC 50436313: Dried organic o'henry sweet potatoes

The variety of organic sweet potatoes known as organic o'henry sweet potatoes that have been dried for preservation.

UNSPSC 50436313, Dried organic o'henry sweet potatoes (Commodity), represents a narrow product line within state and local food procurement, though the recent opportunities on file show minimal direct sourcing under this specific code. State and local governments solicit this commodity primarily through broader food-supply contracts serving child nutrition, corrections, and school meal programs rather than as a standalone line item. The Commodity code sits within a larger food-procurement ecosystem where dried legumes, fresh produce, and specialty food items appear regularly in multi-item RFPs and ITBs issued by state departments of corrections, school districts, and child-care authorities. Issuing bodies in the recent record include state departments (Oregon Department of Corrections, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Georgia Department of Human Services), county and independent school districts (Fairfax County Public Schools, Rockwood R-VI School District, Muscogee County School District, Savannah-Chatham County Public School System, Douglas County School System), municipal agencies (City of Edinburg, Texas), and cooperative purchasing vehicles (GEC Buying Cooperative serving 30 Georgia school districts). These jurisdictions typically bundle dried specialty items such as o'henry sweet potatoes with dried beans, grains, proteins, and fresh produce in consolidated food-service contracts to simplify procurement and delivery logistics.

Activity under this code is currently thin and indirect. The most recent opportunities naming dried legumes or similar specialty food items include the Oregon Department of Corrections' March 2026 and June 2026 ITBs for dried pinto and red beans (ITB S2910000016233 and S2910000017140, with response dates of March 20 and June 19, 2026 respectively) and the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's May 2026 IFB for cafeteria food products (IFB 304T26300CF, extended to May 4, 2026), all issued through the Statewide Procurement Division in Austin. School district opportunities such as Rockwood R-VI's April 2026 grocery-items solicitation (due April 29, 2026) and Fairfax County Public Schools' April 2026 Master Grocery K-12 contract (due April 27, 2026) span hundreds of line items but do not isolate dried organic sweet potatoes as a specified commodity. No recent opportunity in the file lists dried o'henry sweet potatoes as a discrete bid line or explicitly tags the work under this code. Vendors pursuing this commodity should expect to encounter it embedded in multi-item master grocery or produce-and-staples contracts rather than as a standalone solicitation, particularly from institutional food-service buyers in the South and Pacific Northwest where the recent state activity concentrates.