UNSPSC 50586854: Non GMO spoonwart

The variety of Non GMO vegetable known as Non GMO spoonwart. 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 50586854 Non GMO spoonwart is a Commodity code that does not align with the state and local procurement activity in the most recent opportunities dataset. The code nominally identifies a specific agricultural product, but the recent solicitations tagged under it overwhelmingly procure broad fresh produce portfolios—fruits, vegetables, eggs, and dairy—for school nutrition programs, not spoonwart or products matching that category specifically.

School districts and county boards of education represent the dominant issuing bodies across the recent opportunities, with sixteen recent RFPs, RFQs, and ITBs posted between February and June 2026 from jurisdictions in Georgia, Texas, Missouri, and Florida. Early County Board of Education (Georgia), Bulloch County School District (Georgia), Rockwood R-VI School District (Missouri), Liberty County Board of Education (Georgia), Muscogee County School District (Georgia), Savannah-Chatham County Public School System (Georgia), Glynn County Board of Education (Georgia), McAllen Independent School District (Texas), Austin Independent School District (Texas), Northside Independent School District (Texas), and Hillsborough County Public Schools (Florida) have all solicited fresh produce supply contracts within the past five months. Georgia appears most active, with nine recent opportunities from individual districts and cooperative purchasing vehicle aggregations like the GEC Buying Cooperative (serving 30 districts across two regional areas with estimated annual spending of approximately $4.4 million and $1.1 million respectively). Representative solicitations include Early County Board of Education's IFB for line-by-line food and non-food bids (due June 8, 2026) serving three schools under the National School Lunch Program and School Breakfast Program; McAllen Independent School District's RFP for fresh produce across 31 campuses (due March 6, 2026, extended by addendum); Northside Independent School District's RFP 2026-048 for fresh produce delivery five days per week to all district campuses (due May 7, 2026); and the Douglas County School System's RFP through the GEC Buying Cooperative for approximately 72 produce line items across 30 districts (due March 4, 2026). The code shows robust procurement activity, but the mismatch between the nominal commodity (spoonwart) and actual procurement scope (institutional fresh produce portfolios) suggests either a classification error in source data or abandonment of this code in current state and local practice.