UNSPSC 50442202: Frozen feast bunching onions

The variety of bunching onions known as feast bunching onions that have been frozen for preservation.

UNSPSC 50442202 Frozen feast bunching onions (Commodity) describes a single frozen vegetable product line, but the recent state and local solicitations tagged under this code show minimal relevant activity. The Oregon Department of Corrections, Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, school districts across Georgia, Missouri, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut, and municipal purchasing offices have issued numerous food-service RFPs, RFQs, ITBs, and IFBs in the past six months—but the vast majority solicit frozen mixed vegetables, fresh produce, frozen corn, frozen carrots, frozen potatoes, and broad grocery assortments spanning hundreds of line items. Only one opportunity (Oregon Department of Corrections S2910000017451, ITB, due July 24, 2026) explicitly names frozen corn; several others name frozen vegetables or frozen assorted blends, but none identify frozen bunching onions specifically. The code's nominal scope—a narrow, single-commodity food line—sits at odds with how state and local procurement offices actually buy: they consolidate frozen vegetables into assorted or multi-item bids, or they purchase onions (fresh or frozen) as one line within broader grocery or produce contracts.

The issuing-body mix spans state departments (Oregon DOC, Texas HHSC, Texas TDCJ, Texas TxDOT, Illinois), counties (Montgomery County, PA; Douglas County, GA), school districts (Fairfax County VA, Dallas ISD, Burke County GA, Early County GA, Savannah-Chatham GA, Decatur GA, Bulloch County GA, Rockwood R-VI MO, Ben Hill County GA), and cities (Bridgeport CT). Geographic spread is widest in the Southeast (Georgia, particularly in school-district solicitations) and extends into Texas, Oregon, Missouri, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut. Because the code designation appears to be a miscategorization—the actual procurement scope is frozen vegetables broadly, not bunching onions specifically—treat this as a low-signal category for vendors supplying a single frozen vegetable line item. The activity and issuing-body diversity are real, but targeting opportunities by this code is unlikely to surface bunching-onion-specific requirements; vendors in this category should monitor broader frozen-vegetable and grocery codes instead.