UNSPSC 50435212: Dried organic red onions

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

UNSPSC 50435212 Dried organic red onions, a Commodity code, represents a narrow slice of institutional food procurement focused on bulk dried legumes and specialty produce items for state correctional facilities, child-care meal programs, educational institutions, and other government food-service operations. State and local procurement offices soliciting under this code are buying dried beans and pulses—pinto beans, kidney beans, black beans, and similar staple proteins—in institutional quantities, typically palletized for bulk kitchen preparation and long-term storage. The issuing bodies span state departments of corrections, state purchasing offices procuring on behalf of multiple agencies, municipal and county food-service operations supporting child-care programs, and state educational institutions. Georgia Correctional Industries, the Oregon Department of Corrections, the State of Georgia, and the State of Illinois appear as repeat buyers in recent months; the City of Edinburg, Texas, and the Texas Department of Criminal Justice also solicit regularly under related commodity codes for broader food-service categories that include these items as components.

Recent activity clusters in the Pacific Northwest and Southeast. The Oregon Department of Corrections posted bids for approximately 42,500 pounds of dried pinto and red beans due June 19, 2026, with a combined 10% evaluation preference for goods fabricated or processed entirely in Oregon and an additional 5% for Oregon-headquartered bidders; Georgia Correctional Industries issued an RFQ for kidney beans with delivery in 880-bag increments, due October 9, 2026; and the State of Oregon solicited dried black beans, triple-cleaned, due August 21, 2026. The City of Edinburg, Texas, included dried beans within a broader CACFP meal-program RFP serving 400 children ages 1–18, with proposals due August 4, 2026, and a local-vendor preference applying to bids within 5% of the lowest price. The Oregon procurement emphasizes USDA-consistent grading standards, triple-cleaning specifications, and palletization on American Standard four-way pallets with FOB destination delivery; Georgia and City of Edinburg solicitations stress all-inclusive pricing with no separate freight reimbursement. Incumbent pricing in Oregon was $0.493 per pound as of August 2025. The code shows steady activity in state correctional and institutional food procurement but does not map precisely to the posted opportunities—most state and local food-service solicitations use broader commodity codes encompassing mixed food products rather than this narrow organic red onion specification.