UNSPSC 50585604: Non GMO marian rutabagas

The variety of Non GMO vegetable known as Non GMO marian rutabagas. 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 50585604 Non GMO marian rutabagas is a Commodity code with little recent activity aligned to its nominal scope. The recent state and local opportunities tagged under this code do not procure marian rutabagas or any single vegetable variety by name; instead, they solicit broad fresh produce supply contracts encompassing dozens of commodity items—apples, bananas, broccoli, carrots, peppers, tomatoes, leafy greens, citrus, potatoes, eggs, and numerous other staples—for school nutrition programs, district food service operations, and state agency meal support. The mismatch between the code's narrowly specified produce item and the actual scope of recent solicitations suggests that state and local procurement offices are either classifying multi-item produce contracts at a broader family or class tier, or this commodity code does not reflect current purchasing patterns. No solicitation identified in the recent opportunities dataset names rutabagas (GMO or non-GMO) as a line item or bid category.

The issuing bodies soliciting under the broader produce categories include school districts (Early County Board of Education in Georgia; Northside Independent School District in Texas; Rockwood R-VI in Missouri; Liberty County, Muscogee County, Savannah-Chatham County, and Glynn County in Georgia; Hillsborough County in Florida; McAllen and Austin in Texas), state departments of education (Georgia), state agencies (Georgia), and county/regional cooperative purchasing vehicles (GEC Buying Cooperative serving 30 Georgia districts). Geographic activity concentrates in Georgia, Texas, Florida, and Missouri, with Georgia showing the highest frequency of school nutrition RFPs and IFBs. Representative recent solicitations include the Early County Board of Education RFP (due June 8, 2026) for line-by-line food vendor bids under a National School Lunch Program contract, the Northside Independent School District RFP 2026-048 (due May 7, 2026) for fresh produce delivery with USDA Child Nutrition Reimbursable compliance, and the Douglas County School System RFP SN 26-004 (due March 4, 2026) for fresh produce and eggs serving 30 districts across two Georgia areas with estimated annual spend of $4.4 million for Area One and $1.1 million for Area Two. If your firm supplies specialty produce varieties or non-GMO certification programs, map your offering to broader produce family codes rather than commodity codes and monitor school nutrition RFPs in high-activity states; the current code carries minimal relevance to active procurement.