UNSPSC 50593707: Dried Non GMO tardo fennel

The variety of Non GMO fennel known as Non GMO tardo fennel that has 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 50593707 Dried Non GMO Tardo Fennel is a Commodity code that, based on recent state and local procurement activity, does not show sustained or relevant buying under its stated scope. The recent solicitations tagged to this code—including City of Bridgeport's grocery items for school nutrition, Texas HHS food and consumable products, Hancock County fresh produce, Hillsborough County senior meal services, Georgia state food supplies, and school district nutrition contracts across Mississippi, Georgia, Connecticut, and Florida—span broad food service procurement for schools, senior care facilities, and institutional nutrition programs, but none specifically solicit dried non-GMO tardo fennel or items restricted to that botanical specification. The issuing bodies are diverse and include state departments (Texas HHS, Georgia), county school systems (Douglas County, Bulloch County, Hancock County, Savannah-Chatham), municipal school districts (Bridgeport, Meriden, Fairfax County, Pascagoula-Gautier), county commissions (Hillsborough), and the City of Dallas, with school nutrition programs representing the dominant volume across the code's tagged opportunities. These solicitations use RFP, RFQ, IFB, and ITB notice types, with response dates concentrated between late January and late June 2026.

Geographic activity spans Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Texas, and Virginia, with Georgia showing the highest frequency of recent school nutrition procurement—including Douglas County RFPs for fresh produce and eggs and food supply and distribution, Bulloch County's comprehensive school nutrition grocery bid, Savannah-Chatham's fresh produce contract, and state-level fresh produce and food supplies bids. The representative opportunities show institutional food service buying at scale: Meriden Public Schools' RFP for commercial groceries, USDA Foods, and produce with an anticipated contract value of approximately $3,100,000; Douglas County's RFP for food supply and distribution with estimated annual expenditure of approximately $9,000,000; and Hillsborough County's senior meal preparation and delivery services ITB valued at $17,832,659.90 over three years. However, the tagging of these opportunities to UNSPSC 50593707 appears misaligned with the code's specific commodity scope—the solicitations request broad food product assortments, fresh produce, and meal services, not dried fennel or specialty dry botanical ingredients. State and local procurement offices commonly apply higher-tier UNSPSC codes (Families or Classes encompassing food products generally) to catch-all nutrition contracts; the narrowness of the Commodity code suggests minimal actual demand for dried non-GMO tardo fennel in state and local institutional buying, making the pursuit calculus difficult to support based on the activity shown.