UNSPSC 50466311: Canned or jarred maryland red sweet potatoes

The variety of sweet potatoes known as maryland red sweet potatoes that have been canned or jarred for preservation.

UNSPSC 50466311 Canned or jarred Maryland red sweet potatoes (Commodity) represents a narrow product category within state and local food procurement, but recent opportunities tagged with this code show limited actual demand for the specified product. The code nominally addresses a specific regional variety of canned or jarred sweet potatoes, yet the recent solicitations in the dataset—including bids for comprehensive cafeteria food products, school nutrition programs, and state facility consumables—show little concrete activity explicitly seeking canned Maryland red sweet potatoes by that specification. When state and local bodies procure canned vegetables under related codes, they typically specify broader categories such as "canned vegetables" or "canned tomatoes" (as in the Oregon Department of Corrections purchase of 7,616 cases of canned tomatoes in June 2026), or they bundle multiple canned items into large multivalued line-item bids without naming individual regional varieties. The issuing bodies pursuing food procurement span state health and human services departments (Texas HHSC, Georgia, Illinois), county school districts (Burke County Public Schools, Ben Hill County Schools, Gwinnett County), state correctional and long-term care systems (Texas TDCJ, Oregon DOC), and institutional feeding operations at state-supported living centers across multiple states.

Geographic activity concentrates in Texas (multiple HHSC and TDCJ solicitations), Georgia (Gwinnett County, Burke County Schools, Ben Hill County Schools), and Oregon (DOC canned tomatoes procurement, general food variety bid), with Illinois appearing once. However, the dataset contains no recent opportunities explicitly requesting canned or jarred Maryland red sweet potatoes as a stand-alone line item or product category. The most relevant related activity includes the Texas HHSC El Paso State Supported Living Center food and consumable products bid (HHS0017449, due July 2026) covering 210 line items of fresh, frozen, dry, and refrigerated foods, and the Texas TDCJ cafeteria food products procurement (IFB 304T26300CF, due May 2026) encompassing approximately 382 line items across multiple categories. Neither solicitation excerpt explicitly identifies canned Maryland red sweet potatoes as a specified item. This code shows little demonstrable recent procurement activity aligned with its nominal scope; vendors pursuing food supply to state and local bodies may find broader canned-vegetable or shelf-stable-produce categories more consistently solicited.