UNSPSC 50531627: Dried non GMO kandy kot apricots

The variety of non GMO apricots known as non GMO kandy kot apricots that have been dried for preservation. This means that they are produced without the use of methods that genetically modify organisms by means that are not possible under natural conditions. Such methods include cell fusion, microencapsulation and macro-encapsulation, and recombinant DNA technology (including gene deletion, gene doubling, introducing a foreign gene, and changing the positions of genes when achieved by recombinant DNA technology).

Traditional methods of breeding, conjugation, fermentation, hybridization, in vitro fertilization, or tissue culture are considered to be non-GMO.

UNSPSC 50531627 Dried non-GMO kandy kot apricots is a Commodity code representing a single dried-fruit product line, but state and local procurement opportunities tagged with this code show virtually no activity aligned to it—the recent solicitations are instead for broad grocery procurement, fresh produce, meal services, and food supply distribution where dried specialty apricots, if purchased at all, would be incidental line items within much larger food-service contracts. The code's nominal scope does not match what jurisdictions are actually buying under it. Recent state and local activity under this code is minimal and largely misaligned to the product category.

The single opportunity closely matching the code's stated scope is the City of Bridgeport Department of Public Purchases' IFB for grocery items supporting the Bridgeport Board of Education's Food & Nutrition Services Department (Solicitation BNB052266, due June 30, 2026), which encompassed over 1,100 line items spanning cereals, frozen products, vegetables, fruits, dairy, snacks, and other staples—but no specific dried-apricot specification was identified. Other recent solicitations tagged to this code include fresh-produce contracts from Hancock County Board of Education (Georgia), Savannah-Chatham County Public School System (Georgia), and Douglas County School System (Georgia); broader grocery and food-supply RFPs from Fairfax County Public Schools (Virginia), Bulloch County Board of Education (Georgia), and Meriden Public Schools (Connecticut); senior meal services from Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners (Florida); and state-level procurements from Texas Health and Human Services Commission and the State of Georgia. The preponderance of opportunities originate from school districts and county boards of education in Georgia, Florida, Connecticut, Virginia, Mississippi, and Texas, with activity also from state agencies and municipal procurement offices. None of the solicitations explicitly name dried apricots or specialty dried fruits as a distinct product category, indicating that any procurement under this code would occur as a minor commodity within much larger meal-service or food-distribution contracts where pricing and specification negotiation happen at the aggregate contract level rather than as a standalone product line.