UNSPSC 50485217: Sweet onion purees

The variety of onions known as sweet onions which have been pureed.

UNSPSC 50485217 Sweet onion purees (Commodity) represents a narrow product line within state and local food procurement, yet the recent solicitation activity shows minimal direct demand for onion purees specifically. Instead, the code sits within a broader purchasing environment where state agencies, counties, school districts, and specialized public facilities procure food supplies through general grocery, produce, and food-service contracts. The work actually being bought under food commodity codes at this tier spans weekly meal-service fulfillment for institutional cafeterias, nutritional compliance for school lunch programs, and supply chain management for state hospitals and correctional facilities. State and local buyers source these items as line items within larger food procurements—often bundled with fresh produce, canned goods, proteins, dairy, and prepared foods—rather than as standalone category purchases. Issuing bodies include school nutrition programs (Fairfax County Public Schools, Rockwood R-VI School District, Burke County Public Schools, Liberty County Board of Education, Muscogee County Schools, Savannah-Chatham County Schools, Ben Hill County Schools), state departments (Illinois Veterans Home, Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Oregon Department of Corrections), and county school systems in Georgia and Missouri. No recent opportunities in the dataset explicitly solicited sweet onion purees as a standalone commodity or named line item.

Geographic activity is concentrated in the South and Midwest, with school districts and state agencies in Georgia, Texas, Missouri, Illinois, and Oregon issuing the largest food procurements in the recent window. Representative recent opportunities include the Texas Health and Human Services Commission's IFB HHS0017449 (posted June 11, 2026, due July 13, 2026) for food and consumable products serving state supported living centers statewide, the Fairfax County Public Schools Master Grocery K-12 contract (IFB 2000004323, posted April 6, 2026, due April 27, 2026) supplying 45 schools and distribution kitchens, and the Douglas County School System's RFP 26-003 (posted January 21, 2026, due February 18, 2026) for food supply and distribution across 32 schools with an estimated annual value of approximately $9,000,000. While these procurements encompass hundreds of line items across fresh produce, frozen goods, dairy, proteins, and specialty items, sweet onion purees do not appear as explicitly named commodities in the recent posting abstracts. Pursuit interest in this code should be tempered by the lack of visible standalone demand signals; vendors seeking opportunities should monitor broader grocery and produce category RFPs and monitor line-item attachments to identify institutional or regional demand for onion purees.