UNSPSC 50415212: Organic red onions

The variety of organic onions known as organic red onions

UNSPSC 50415212 Organic red onions, a Commodity code, reflects minimal recent activity aligned with the code's nominal scope. State and local governments buying under this eight-digit code purchase fresh produce items for school nutrition programs, central procurement operations, and federally funded child nutrition initiatives, but the recent solicitations in the dataset emphasize broad fresh-produce portfolios rather than organic red onions specifically. School districts dominate the issuing bodies, with the mix including independent school districts, county boards of education, and cooperative purchasing vehicles serving multiple districts. Representative solicitations span Georgia, Texas, Missouri, and Florida, with most focus on child nutrition services under National School Lunch Program and School Breakfast Program mandates. Early County Board of Education (Georgia) issued an RFP for line-by-line food bids due June 8, 2026, encompassing 300+ food items with emphasis on domestic sourcing, whole-grain options, and low-sodium formulations. Northside Independent School District in San Antonio, Texas, solicited fresh-produce RFP 2026-048 due May 7, 2026, requiring USDA Child Nutrition Reimbursable compliance, HACCP certification, temperature-controlled delivery Monday through Friday during school year, and Texas-grown produce prioritization. The Georgia State Procurement Office issued IFB #4 2027-2026 for fresh produce due May 27, 2026, and Hillsborough County Public Schools in Tampa issued RFP 26039RFPDST for the Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program serving approximately 18 elementary schools due March 11, 2026 at an estimated $600,000 annual budget funded by USDA grants.

The recent opportunity record shows sustained procurement across school districts in Georgia, Texas, Florida, and Missouri, with secondary activity in South Carolina and scattered mid-market jurisdictions. Most solicitations are RFPs or IFBs with delivery deadlines in April through June 2026 and contract periods beginning July 1, 2026. Procurement emphasizes compliance with Buy American provisions, HACCP certification, temperature-controlled logistics, USDA pricing benchmarks (particularly USDA Terminal Market reports and Urner Barry commodity pricing), firm fixed pricing for the contract year with midterm adjustment caps (typically 3–5% thresholds), and line-item awards to multiple vendors. School nutrition programs typically require weekly or twice-weekly deliveries to multiple school sites between 6:00 AM and 2:30 PM, with liability insurance requirements ranging from $500,000 to $2 million and comprehensive compliance certifications including debarment, E-Verify, and federal work authorization. The Douglas County School System issued a high-value cooperative RFP (SN 26-004) for 30 districts across Georgia with combined estimated annual spending of $5.5 million, requiring vendor selection by late April 2026. No current solicitations explicitly target organic red onions as a line item; the code appears underutilized or subsumed within broader fresh-produce aggregations that do not distinguish organic sourcing as a separate specification.