UNSPSC 50466317: Canned or jarred red jersey sweet potatoes

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

UNSPSC 50466317 Canned or jarred red jersey sweet potatoes is a Commodity code representing a narrowly defined food product category that state and local governments purchase primarily through their institutional food service operations—most visibly school nutrition programs, state-operated facilities, and correctional institutions. The recent solicitation activity under this code is sparse; none of the representative opportunities in the dataset explicitly specify red jersey sweet potatoes by name or isolate them as a line item. Instead, the code sits embedded within much larger food procurement solicitations that span hundreds of line items across diverse produce and canned-goods categories. When state and local bodies do source canned vegetables under broader food codes, they typically solicit them as part of annual grocery or meal-service contracts that bundle proteins, dairy, fresh produce, and processed goods together, reflecting the commodity's role as one component in institutional nutrition supply chains rather than as a standalone procurement focus.

State procurement activity for food products of this type concentrates among school districts (particularly in Georgia and Missouri), state departments of corrections (Oregon), state health and human services agencies (Texas and Illinois), and regional purchasing cooperatives. The issuing bodies span elementary through high school nutrition programs, state-supported living centers, correctional facilities, and state hospitals. Recent representative opportunities include the Texas Health and Human Services Commission's IFB HHS0017449 for food and consumable products supplying the El Paso State Supported Living Center (response due July 13, 2026), the Rockwood R-VI School District's Child Nutrition Services grocery solicitation covering over 900 line items for the 2026-27 school year (bids due April 29, 2026), and the Oregon Department of Corrections' procurement of canned tomatoes (IFB S2910000017145, due June 19, 2026). Activity is concentrated in Texas, Georgia, Oregon, Missouri, and Illinois. Because canned sweet potatoes are rarely called out separately in solicitations—they appear as one of dozens of items within comprehensive food-service contracts—vendors pursuing this commodity should expect to encounter it as a line-item bid within larger institutional food procurements rather than as a standalone RFP or IFB.