UNSPSC 50486321: Purple sweet potato purees

Variety of sweet potatoes known as purple sweet potatoes. which have been pureed.

UNSPSC 50486321 Purple sweet potato purees is a Commodity code. State and local governments procure purple sweet potato purees as a food ingredient for institutional food service operations, though the recent opportunities block contains only one solicitation that explicitly names this specific commodity. The breadth of recent activity under related food-supply codes shows state education agencies, school districts, state health and human services departments, and state correctional facilities are the primary issuing bodies soliciting food products for institutional consumption. These jurisdictions source commodity foods through periodic competitive bidding cycles—typically annual or quarterly—using RFP, RFQ, IFB, and ITB notice types. Buy American Act compliance appears routinely in school nutrition solicitations, and firm fixed pricing for contract terms of one year is standard, with price adjustments permitted only at renewal periods or when supported by third-party market indices such as USDA Agricultural Marketing Service reports or Consumer Price Index data.

Geographic spread of food procurement activity is concentrated in the Southeast and Southwest, with recent high-volume solicitations from Texas (Health and Human Services Commission, Department of Criminal Justice, Comptroller of Public Accounts), Georgia (state agency, multiple school districts including Muscogee County, Douglas County, Liberty County, Burke County, and Savannah-Chatham County), Oregon (Department of Corrections), Illinois (Veterans Home), and Missouri (Rockwood School District). The sole recent solicitation explicitly naming purple sweet potato purees—the Illinois Veterans Home RFQ for quarterly weekly food orders (RFQ 26497DVAQUINCB52821, due June 26, 2026)—indicates this commodity appears in institutional food service requisitions alongside broader protein, dairy, produce, and prepared-food line items. Similar multi-category food procurements from Ben Hill County Schools (Georgia IFB, due June 15, 2026) and Fairfax County Public Schools (Virginia IFB 2000004323, due April 27, 2026) confirm that purple sweet potato purees would compete as one line item within large, diversified food supply contracts spanning hundreds of SKUs rather than as standalone category bids.