UNSPSC 50585117: Non GMO sweet onions

The variety of Non GMO onions known as Non GMO sweet onions. 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 50585117 Non GMO sweet onions — a Commodity code — maps poorly to current state and local procurement activity. The recent-opportunities block contains no solicitations specifically for sweet onions or any onion product lines. Instead, the sixteen recent postings (May 2026 back to February 2026) all solicit broad fresh-produce bundles, school nutrition staples, and multi-category food supply contracts in which onions appear as one line item among dozens or hundreds. The State of Georgia's IFB for fresh produce (May 2026, due May 27, 2026), Early County Board of Education's line-item food bid (May 2026, due June 8, 2026), and Bulloch County School District's farm-to-school RFP (April 2026, due May 4, 2026) name onions generically but do not isolate them as specialty commodities. Hillsborough County Public Schools' USDA Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program contract (April 2026, due March 11, 2026) and Northside Independent School District's produce RFP in San Antonio (April 2026, due May 7, 2026) similarly bundle onions within broader fresh-produce line items, not as standalone procurement targets.

School districts, county boards of education, and state purchasing offices dominate the recent issuing-body mix — Liberty County Board of Education (Georgia, April 2026), Muscogee County School District (Georgia, March 2026), Savannah-Chatham County Public School System (Georgia, March 2026), Glynn County Board of Education (Georgia, March 2026), McAllen Independent School District (Texas, March 2026), Austin Independent School District (Texas, February 2026), Douglas County School System (Georgia, February 2026) — with activity concentrated in Georgia and Texas. The commodity code as currently tagged appears to be a classifier-matching artifact rather than a signal of standalone sweet-onion procurement. Vendors pursuing onion sales to state and local buyers should focus on school-nutrition RFPs and multi-category IFBs requiring line-item pricing, not opportunities tagged to the sweet-onion Commodity code alone.