UNSPSC 50485605: Purple potato purees

The variety of potatoes known as purple potatoes which have been pureed.

UNSPSC 50485605 Purple potato purees, a Commodity code, represents a niche input into broader institutional food service procurement but does not appear as a standalone line item in state and local purchasing. The recent opportunities in the source do not isolate purple potato purees; instead, they reflect school districts, state correctional facilities, state health agencies, and state-supported living centers soliciting comprehensive food supply contracts that enumerate hundreds of line items across produce, proteins, dairy, grains, and prepared items, with purple potato purees either embedded within vegetable categories or absent entirely from posted bid schedules.

Activity under this code is fragmentary and appears principally through school nutrition programs and state institutional food services across the Southeast and West. The issuing bodies are school districts (Ben Hill County Schools in Georgia, Burke County Public Schools in Georgia, Rockwood R-VI School District in Missouri, Liberty County Board of Education in Georgia, Muscogee County School District in Georgia, Savannah-Chatham County Public School System in Georgia, Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia, Douglas County School System in Georgia), state departments of corrections (Oregon Department of Corrections), state health agencies (Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Georgia Department of Health), and state veterans' homes (Illinois Veterans Home in Quincy). Geographic concentration leans heavily toward Georgia school districts, with secondary activity in Texas institutional facilities, Missouri school districts, Oregon corrections, and Virginia public schools. Representative recent solicitations include the Texas Health and Human Services Commission's IFB HHS0017449 for food and consumable products to supply the HHSC El Paso State Supported Living Center, posted June 11, 2026 with proposals due July 13, 2026, covering NIGP food service categories with a historical contract value of $1.5 million; the Oregon Department of Corrections' ITB S2910000016405 for canned tomatoes, posted February 20, 2026 with bids due March 9, 2026; and Fairfax County Public Schools' IFB 2000004323 for Master Grocery K-12, posted April 6, 2026 with sealed bids due April 27, 2026, requiring weekly delivery to 45 schools and seven distribution kitchens across the district. The commodity itself—purple potato purees—does not surface as a named line item in any posted opportunity; vendors pursuing this code should expect to pitch it as a specialty or value-added vegetable component within larger school nutrition or institutional food service RFQs, RFPs, and IFBs, where the buying bodies weight price heavily and demand firm fixed pricing, FOB destination delivery, and compliance with USDA standards and nutritional guidelines.