UNSPSC 50535812: Dried non GMO black diamond plums

The variety of non GMO plums known as non GMO black diamond plums 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 50535812 Dried non-GMO black diamond plums is a Commodity code that nominally covers a single dried fruit product line, but the recent state and local solicitations tagged to this code show little activity directly aligned with the commodity itself. Of the fifteen recent opportunities in the dataset, none target dried black diamond plums specifically. Instead, the tagged opportunities span broad food-service procurement categories—comprehensive grocery supply for school districts and institutional food programs, fresh produce contracts, boxed and bulk meal delivery, and senior meal services—where dried fruit may or may not appear as a line item among hundreds of others. The issuing bodies are predominantly school districts (Bridgeport Board of Education, Hancock County Board of Education, Fairfax County Public Schools, Bulloch County Board of Education, Savannah-Chatham County Public School System, Meriden Public Schools, and Douglas County School System) and state or county agencies (Texas Health and Human Services Commission, State of Georgia, Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners, Pascagoula-Gautier School District, and City of Dallas). The solicitations run the full range of notice types—RFP, RFQ, IFB, and ITB—with response dates spanning February through July 2026.

Geographic activity is concentrated in the Southeast, with the heaviest volume in Georgia (multiple school districts and the State of Georgia), followed by Florida, Texas, Connecticut, Mississippi, and Virginia. The representative opportunities show school nutrition programs dominating the tagged activity: Fairfax County Public Schools' Master Grocery K-12 IFB (due April 27, 2026) solicits grocery supply and delivery to 45 schools and seven distribution kitchens; Meriden Public Schools' RFP 026-41 (due February 25, 2026) covers commercial groceries and USDA Foods for 8,200 students across 13 sites with an anticipated value of $3.1 million; and Douglas County School System's RFP SN 26-003 (due February 18, 2026) seeks a main-line food service distributor for approximately 32,000 daily meals across 32 schools with estimated annual expenditure of $9 million. While these contracts may include dried fruit items as part of larger grocery or produce categories, the code's narrow commodity focus—dried black diamond plums—does not align well with the broad-based institutional food procurement activity actually being solicited under it. Vendors pursuing opportunities under this code should view it as an entry point to institutional food supply relationships rather than a channel for specialty fruit product lines.