UNSPSC 50436848: Dried organic palm hearts

The type of organic vegetable known as organic palm hearts that have been dried for preservation.

UNSPSC 50436848 Dried organic palm hearts is a Commodity code, but the recent state and local opportunities posted under it do not actually solicit palm hearts. Instead, the code has been used to tag procurement for dried beans — kidney beans, black beans, and pinto and red beans — sourced for institutional food service in correctional facilities, child and adult care programs, and state agency kitchens. The issuing bodies include state departments of corrections (Oregon, Georgia), state purchasing offices (Georgia, Texas, Illinois), cities (Edinburg, Texas), and specialized state agencies (Georgia Correctional Industries). The work being solicited is bulk dried commodity procurement for meal preparation at scale, with specifications emphasizing USDA grading standards, triple-cleaning, moisture and foreign-material tolerances, food-safety compliance, and palletized delivery to central distribution points. Pricing is all-inclusive of transportation and fuel surcharges, and delivery windows range from immediate to 45 days post-purchase order.

Recent activity clusters in the Southeast and West. The Oregon Department of Corrections issued an IFB on June 5, 2026 (bids due June 19, 2026) for approximately 42,500 pounds of dried pinto and red beans meeting U.S. No. 2 or better grade, triple-cleaned, with a combined 10% Oregon-preference evaluation credit; the historical incumbent price was $0.493 per pound. Georgia Correctional Industries posted an RFQ on October 2, 2026 (bids due October 9, 2026) for kidney beans in 880-bag increments, all-inclusive delivery. The State of Oregon also solicited dried black beans triple-cleaned on August 7, 2026 (bids due August 21, 2026). Texas corrections and the City of Edinburg's child and adult care program issued broader food-supply solicitations that encompassed dried beans as line items within larger cafeteria or meal-program contracts. The mismatch between the UNSPSC code name and the actual commodity being bought signals that state and local procurement systems are applying this palm-hearts code as a catch-all for dried legume procurement, likely due to taxonomy limitations or data-entry practice.