UNSPSC 50485700: Rutabaga purees

The type of vegetable known as rutabagas which have been pureed.

UNSPSC 50485700 Rutabaga purees is a Class code that sees minimal recent state and local procurement activity aligned with its nominal scope. The recent opportunities block contains no solicitations for rutabaga purees or similar root vegetable preparations. Instead, the tagged opportunities focus on broad food service procurement — school nutrition meal programs, state facility cafeteria supply, corrections department institutional feeding, and health and human services facility food service — where vegetables appear as line items within comprehensive food baskets rather than as standalone commodity purchases. The mismatch between the code's narrow focus (a specific prepared vegetable product) and the actual solicitations (general food supply to institutional food service operations) suggests the code does not capture meaningful procurement activity in state and local markets, or that buyers using these codes do not tag rutabaga-specific procurement with precision.

State and local issuing bodies placing recent food-service solicitations span school districts (Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia; Rockwood R-VI, Douglas County Schools in Georgia; Ben Hill County Schools in Georgia; Burke County Public Schools in Georgia; Liberty County Board of Education in Georgia; Savannah-Chatham County Public School System in Georgia), state agencies (Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Oregon Department of Corrections, State of Illinois, State of Georgia), and correctional and health care facilities (Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Illinois Veterans Homes). These buyers issue RFPs, RFQs, ITBs, and IFBs with response dates typically 30–45 days from posting. Representative recent opportunities include the Texas Health and Human Services Commission's IFB HHS0017449 for food and consumable products at the El Paso State Supported Living Center (due Jul 13, 2026) covering NIGP food categories with a prior-period value of $1.5 million, and the Oregon Department of Corrections' ITB for 7,616 cases of canned tomatoes (due Jun 19, 2026) with prior pricing at $13.75 per case. Geographic activity clusters in Texas, Georgia, Oregon, and Illinois, with school districts emerging as the largest and most frequent state and local buyers of institutional food products.