UNSPSC 50425211: Dried red baron onions

The variety of onions known as red baron onions that have been dried for preservation.

UNSPSC 50425211 Dried red baron onions is a Commodity code that represents a narrow product line within food procurement, yet state and local governments rarely solicit this ingredient explicitly by name or specification. Recent opportunities show that dried onions appear incidentally as line items within much broader food service solicitations — cafeteria supply contracts, school nutrition programs, and institutional meal services — rather than as standalone procurement targets. The City of Edinburg, Texas, Child and Adult Care Food Program (RFP 2026-017, due August 4, 2026) encompasses dried and fresh vegetables as part of a five-category food supply including beverages, proteins, and paper goods to serve 400 children daily; the Texas Department of Criminal Justice cafeteria food products solicitation (IFB 304T-26-300CF, extended to May 4, 2026) includes canned and fresh vegetables across approximately 382 line items for six warehouse distribution points; and the Rockwood R-VI School District Child Nutrition Services procurement (CHILDNUTRITIONSERVICESGROCERYITEMS20262027, due April 29, 2026) spans over 900 grocery line items including vegetables, with estimated quantities ranging from minimal to over 500 cases annually per item. Issuing bodies are predominantly school districts and state correctional or institutional agencies — Fairfax County Public Schools (Virginia), Rockwood School District (Missouri), Savannah-Chatham County Public School System (Georgia), Muscogee County School District (Georgia), Douglas County School System (Georgia), and state corrections departments — reflecting the institutional food service demand driver.

Geographic activity concentrates in the South and Southwest: Texas (multiple TDCJ and city-level procurements), Georgia (school districts and state procurement), Oregon (Department of Corrections dried-goods solicitations), Missouri (school district), and Virginia (county schools). No recent opportunities show procurement specifically labeled for dried red baron onions; the code appears misaligned with the actual solicitation activity in the source block, which focuses on fresh produce, broader fresh-or-dried vegetable categories, and mixed grocery line items rather than specialty dried onion varieties. Vendors pursuing this code should recognize that purchasing typically bundles dried onions into master grocery or staple-items contracts won through general food-service or commodity-distributor relationships rather than ingredient-specific bids, and that competition occurs at the distributor or food-service-aggregator level rather than at single-item specialty supply.