UNSPSC 50484116: Papalo purees

The variety of herbs known as papalo which have been pureed.

UNSPSC 50484116 Papalo purees (Commodity) sees minimal recent activity in state and local procurement. The code's nominal scope—specialty prepared purees of papalo, a Latin American herb—does not align with the recent opportunities tagged to it. The solicitations spanning Illinois, Texas, Oregon, Georgia, and Missouri reflect instead broad food service procurement for schools, corrections facilities, and state health agencies, covering canned tomatoes, fresh produce, eggs, frozen entrees, dairy products, proteins, and general grocery line items. The actual work being solicited under this code classification involves weekly and annual food supply contracts for institutional food service operations, not specialty puree products.

School districts dominate the issuing-body mix, with recent RFPs and IFBs from Fairfax County Public Schools (Virginia), Rockwood R-VI School District (Missouri), Ben Hill County Schools (Georgia), Muscogee County School District (Georgia), Liberty County Board of Education (Georgia), Burke County Public Schools (Georgia), Douglas County School System (Georgia), and Savannah-Chatham County Public School System (Georgia). State corrections and health agencies also solicit under this code, including the Oregon Department of Corrections, Texas Health and Human Services Commission, and Illinois Department of Veterans Affairs. Geographic concentration is heaviest in Georgia and Texas, with secondary activity in Missouri, Oregon, Illinois, and Virginia. Representative recent opportunities include the Texas Health and Human Services Commission IFB HHS0017449 for food and consumable products at the El Paso State Supported Living Center (proposal due July 13, 2026), the Oregon Department of Corrections ITB S2910000016405 for canned tomato products (bid due April 6, 2026), and Fairfax County Public Schools IFB 2000004323 for Master Grocery K-12 serving 45 elementary, middle, and high schools plus distribution kitchens (bids due April 27, 2026). The mismatch between the code's name and actual procurement scope suggests this Commodity code is either a classification error in state procurement systems or represents an artifact of hierarchical UNSPSC tagging where broader Family-level food codes are applied to individual commodity solicitations.