UNSPSC 50535826: Dried non GMO ebony plums

The variety of non GMO plums known as non GMO ebony 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 50535826 Dried non GMO ebony plums, a Commodity code, sees minimal direct state and local procurement activity aligned with its specific product definition. Recent opportunities tagged to this code predominantly solicit comprehensive food and produce supply for schools, senior meal programs, and institutional facilities rather than dried specialty fruit items as discrete line items. The City of Bridgeport Board of Education, Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners, Fairfax County Public Schools, Savannah-Chatham County Public School System, Bulloch County Board of Education, Douglas County School System, and the State of Georgia have all posted grocery and produce solicitations in the past four months, but these opportunities cast wide nets across 1,100+ line items (Bridgeport), 200+ fresh produce varieties (Hancock County Schools, Savannah-Chatham), or full-service food distribution (Douglas County's $9 million food supply RFP). Meriden Public Schools in Connecticut anticipated $3.1 million in annual grocery and produce spending; the Texas Health and Human Services Commission posted a $1.5 million historical-value food and consumable products IFB for the El Paso State Supported Living Center. None of these solicitations isolate dried non-GMO ebony plums as a tracked or separately bid commodity, and several focus on fresh produce or broad commodity categories rather than specialty dried items.

Geographic activity clusters in the Southeast—Georgia (Douglas County, Bulloch County, Savannah-Chatham, State of Georgia), Florida (Hillsborough County), and Mississippi (Pascagoula-Gautier School District)—alongside Mid-Atlantic and Northeast school districts (Connecticut, Virginia, Florida). School districts and education-focused agencies dominate the issuing-body mix, supplemented by county commissioners and state health and human services departments. If pursuing this code, vendors should recognize that procurement offices appear to use it as a catch-all tag rather than as a specific fresh or dried fruit category, and opportunities surface primarily through cooperative purchasing vehicles, school nutrition RFPs, and master grocery contracts where dried specialty items may be embedded in broader line-item lists rather than bid independently. Recent response deadlines have ranged from late April through late July 2026, with most school year contracts commencing July 1, 2026.