UNSPSC 50532103: Dried non GMO mountain bilberries

The variety of non GMO billberries known as non GMO mountain bilberries 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 50532103 Dried non-GMO mountain bilberries is a Commodity code that captures specialty dried fruit procurement within state and local school nutrition and institutional food service programs. The recent contract opportunities tagged with this code show no instances of actual bilberry procurement; instead, they reflect broad food and consumable sourcing by school districts, county boards of education, state agencies, and county health departments across breakfast items, fresh produce, meals, and general grocery supplies. The mismatch between the code's nominal scope and the actual opportunities on file suggests that state and local buyers either misclassify procurement when tagging general food-service contracts or treat this code as a catch-all for specialty dried ingredients within larger institutional food solicitations. Issuing bodies include independent school districts (Hancock County Board of Education in Georgia, Pascagoula-Gautier School District in Mississippi), city education departments (City of Bridgeport Board of Education in Connecticut), county commissioners (Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners in Florida), and state health and human services agencies (Texas Health and Human Services Commission, State of Georgia).

Recent opportunities span Connecticut, Georgia, Mississippi, Florida, and Texas, with school nutrition programs representing the dominant buyer category. Representative solicitations include Hancock County Board of Education's June 2026 IFB for fresh produce across 200+ line items (due June 26, 2026), the City of Bridgeport's June 2026 IFB for over 1,100 grocery line items supporting the National School Lunch Program (due June 30, 2026), Hillsborough County's June 2026 ITB for senior meal preparation and delivery services valued at $17.8 million over three years (due June 25, 2026), and the Texas Health and Human Services Commission's June 2026 IFB for food and consumable products for state-supported living centers with a prior-period value of $1.5 million (due July 13, 2026). All school nutrition solicitations enforce the Buy American Provision requiring at least 51 percent domestic agricultural content, carry firm fixed pricing requirements, mandate nutritional compliance with the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act, and require vendor capacity for 24-hour emergency delivery and HACCP plan documentation. The code shows minimal targeted activity for dried bilberries specifically; buyers treat this code as a generic institutional food category rather than a specialty dried-fruit line item.