UNSPSC 50405305: Bulb onions

The variety of onions known as bulb onions

UNSPSC 50405305 Bulb onions, a Commodity code, covers fresh onion supply to state and local food service operations — particularly school nutrition programs, child care facilities, senior services, and institutional kitchens operated by correctional and health departments. Recent solicitations show onions supplied as part of broader fresh produce procurements or as discrete line items within multi-category food bids, with quantities ranging from 260+ cases to 790+ cases in school-year contracts and bulk tonnage in institutional purchasing.

State and local issuing bodies pursuing onion supply span school districts (from small rural systems like Early County and Bryan County in Georgia to large urban districts like Northside Independent School District in San Antonio serving over 100 schools), county boards of education, state departments of criminal justice, Head Start and child care networks, senior services divisions in cities, and statewide purchasing cooperatives. Georgia school districts account for substantial recent activity — Bryan County Schools, Bulloch County, Dougherty County, Liberty County, Glynn County, Henry County, Savannah-Chatham County, and Muscogee County all issued produce RFPs or ITBs in the past four months naming onion supply as a line item. Texas Department of Criminal Justice has issued multiple root vegetable and produce procurement notices; McAllen Independent School District and Northside Independent School District in Texas; Hillsborough County Public Schools in Florida; and Head Start of Greater Dallas and Meriden Public Schools in Connecticut also appear in the recent record. Geographic concentration skews toward Georgia and Texas, with secondary activity in Florida, Connecticut, Missouri, and other states. Representative recent opportunities include Bryan County Schools (sealed bid for fresh produce including 790+ cases of onions, due May 27, 2026), Dougherty County Board of Education (sealed bid for fresh produce including carrots and other produce, bids due June 16, 2026 at 11:30 a.m.), and the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (bulk carrot and sweet potato procurement under IFBs IW253099 and IW253121 posted June 2–3, 2026, due June 23, 2026). Onion sourcing typically requires local or domestic origin within 200–400 miles, HACCP certification, temperature-controlled delivery, traceability documentation by farm, and weekly or twice-weekly delivery to multiple school sites or institutional kitchens; contracts run July through June with firm pricing for the initial contract year and price redetermination or escalation clauses tied to USDA Agricultural Marketing Service reports or Consumer Price Index data thereafter.