UNSPSC 50425200: Dried onions

The type of vegetable known as onions that has been dried for preservation.

UNSPSC 50425200 Dried onions is a Class code that captures state and local procurement of dehydrated and processed onion products for institutional food service. Recent solicitations under this code show that state and local governments purchase dried onions as commodity ingredients within broader food-supply contracts for correctional facilities, child nutrition programs, and school meal services. The code sits within a wider procurement pattern where state departments of corrections, school districts, and municipal food-service operations source dried legumes, grains, and vegetable products as staple items for bulk institutional cooking. Issuing bodies include state departments of corrections (Oregon, Texas), state education agencies, county and municipal school districts (Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia, Rockwood R-VI in Missouri, Muscogee County and Savannah-Chatham in Georgia, Douglas County in Georgia), and municipal child-care programs (City of Edinburg, Texas). These jurisdictions solicit dried onions alongside other dry goods and proteins as components of annual or multi-year term contracts covering hundreds of line items and serving thousands of meals daily.

Geographic activity concentrates in the South and West, with recent solicitations from Georgia (Douglas County School System RFP SN 26-004 for fresh produce and eggs posted February 4, 2026, due March 4, 2026, and Muscogee County School District ITB 26-017 for produce posted March 27, 2026, due April 27, 2026), Texas (Oregon Department of Corrections ITB S2910000017140 for dried pinto and red beans posted June 5, 2026, due June 19, 2026, and City of Edinburg RFP 2026-017 for CACFP meal program posted July 16, 2026, due August 4, 2026), Oregon, Missouri (Rockwood R-VI IFB posted March 31, 2026, due April 29, 2026), and Virginia (Fairfax County Public Schools Master Grocery K-12 IFB 2000004323 posted April 6, 2026, due April 27, 2026). School nutrition procurement dominates the code, with districts typically bundling dried onions within master grocery or food-supply RFPs and IFBs that enumerate 50 to 900+ line items; representative solicitations include Rockwood R-VI's grocery items contract spanning over 900 line items with award anticipated June 4, 2026, and Douglas County School System's fresh produce and eggs RFP with estimated annual spending of approximately $4.4 million for Area One and $1.1 million for Area Two. No recent opportunities explicitly isolated dried onions as a single-item procurement, suggesting the product is typically sourced as one ingredient within larger institutional food contracts rather than as a standalone commodity.