UNSPSC 50583606: Non GMO sweet florence fennel

The variety of Non GMO fennel known as Non GMO sweet florence fennel. 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 50583606 Non GMO sweet florence fennel, a Commodity code, shows no meaningful recent state and local procurement activity. The source contains sixteen state and local solicitations spanning February through May 2026, but none target fennel—sweet florence or otherwise, GMO or non-GMO. The opportunities cluster around broad produce procurement for school nutrition programs, including fresh-fruit-and-vegetable contracts, child nutrition grocery-item bids, and farm-to-school initiatives across Georgia, Texas, Missouri, and Florida, but specific vegetable line items track apples, bananas, bell peppers, broccoli, carrots, celery, lettuce, onions, potatoes, tomatoes, and leafy greens. The sole mention of fennel appears only in the code definition itself, not in any actual procurement scope.

School districts and county boards of education dominate the issuing bodies—Early County Board of Education, Bulloch County School District, Muscogee County School District, Savannah-Chatham County Public School System, Glynn County Board of Education, Northside Independent School District, Hillsborough County Public Schools, McAllen Independent School District, Austin Independent School District, and others—along with state departments and the GEC Buying Cooperative. Solicitations run as RFPs, RFQs, ITBs, and IFBs with response deadlines between early March and late June 2026. The mismatch between the commodity code (fennel) and actual procurement signals either miscoding in the state and local database or negligible demand for this product line in institutional food service. Firms targeting this code should verify whether fennel procurement appears under different UNSPSC classifications or expect minimal near-term opportunity.