UNSPSC 50591916: Dried Non GMO formanova beets

The variety of Non GMO beets known as Non GMO formanova beets 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 50591916 Dried Non-GMO Formanova Beets is a Commodity code. State and local governments procure under this code as part of much broader food-service and nutrition purchasing activity, though the recent opportunities block shows no direct solicitations for dried beets as a standalone line item. Instead, dried beets appear tangentially within large multi-category grocery and fresh-produce solicitations where school districts, county boards of education, and municipal food-service authorities source hundreds of product lines simultaneously—fresh produce, proteins, dairy, grains, vegetables both fresh and frozen, and prepared items—all required to meet Buy American provisions, USDA compliance standards, nutritional labeling, and in many cases, Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act mandates. The issuing bodies are predominantly K-12 school nutrition programs and school districts (Bridgeport Board of Education, Fairfax County Public Schools, Bulloch County Board of Education, Savannah-Chatham County Public School System, Meriden Public Schools, Douglas County School System), supplemented by county-level meal services (Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners for senior meals), state-level procurements (Texas Health and Human Services Commission for state-supported living centers, State of Georgia for institutional food supplies), and municipal food-service operations (City of Dallas for event catering, City of Meriden).

Recent activity concentrates heavily in the Southeast, particularly Georgia (State of Georgia, Bulloch County, Savannah-Chatham County, Douglas County School System with 30-district cooperative buying), with secondary volume in Florida (Hillsborough County), Connecticut (Meriden Public Schools), Virginia (Fairfax County Public Schools), and across Texas and Mississippi. Representative solicitations include Bridgeport Board of Education (BNB052266, RFQ for over 1,100 line items of grocery items including vegetables, due June 30, 2026), Douglas County School System (DCSDSN26-003, RFP for food supply and distribution estimated at approximately $9,000,000 annually, due February 18, 2026), and Fairfax County Public Schools (IFB 2000004323 Master Grocery K-12, IFB for grocery product supply and delivery to 45 schools plus distribution kitchens, due April 27, 2026). Dried beets as a discrete commodity rarely surfaces as a separate line or solicitation focus; vendors pursuing this code should recognize that success depends on participation in large cooperative or multi-vendor grocery frameworks where dried and processed vegetables are nested within comprehensive institutional meal programs rather than marketed as standalone products.