UNSPSC 50482403: Skunk cabbage purees

The type of vegetable known as skunk cabbage which have been pureed.

UNSPSC 50482403 Skunk cabbage purees, a Commodity code, shows no material recent activity under state and local procurement. The code's nominal scope—processed vegetable purees—does not match the work actually being solicited in the recent opportunities block. The seventeen recent solicitations tagged to this code across Illinois, Texas, Oregon, Georgia, Virginia, and Missouri are for broad food and consumable procurement: weekly institutional food orders, school nutrition supply contracts encompassing hundreds of line items across proteins, dairy, produce, grains, and prepared foods; hospital and state facility food service; and fresh produce and canned goods for correctional institutions. None of these opportunities specifically solicit skunk cabbage purees or related specialty vegetable products. The code appears to have been applied in error to general food commodity bids.

The issuing bodies represent a mix of state departments, school districts, and institutional food service programs. Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Oregon Department of Corrections, and the Illinois Veterans Home appear multiple times in the recent block. School districts dominate the activity—Fairfax County Public Schools (Virginia), Rockwood R-VI School District (Missouri), Ben Hill County Schools and Liberty County Board of Education (Georgia), Burke County Public Schools (Georgia), and Savannah-Chatham County Public School System (Georgia)—along with county school systems such as Douglas County and Muscogee County in Georgia. Geographic spread spans Texas, Oregon, Illinois, Georgia, Virginia, and Missouri, with Georgia school districts particularly active in the past six months. Representative recent solicitations include Fairfax County Public Schools IFB 2000004323 for Master Grocery K-12 (due April 27, 2026), Texas Health and Human Services Commission IFB HHS0017449 for food and consumables at El Paso State Supported Living Center (due July 13, 2026), and Oregon Department of Corrections ITB S2910000017145 for canned tomatoes approximately 7,616 cases (due June 19, 2026). Bidders pursuing this code should verify proper commodity classification before investing in pursuit; the recent activity suggests misclassification rather than a genuine specialty-vegetable market segment.