UNSPSC 50602700: Frozen Non GMO celery

The type of Non GMO vegetable known as Non GMO celery that has been frozen 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 50602700 Frozen Non-GMO Celery is a Class code that nominally describes a single produce commodity, but recent state and local solicitations show minimal activity specifically under this narrow code. Instead, state and local governments are procuring frozen and fresh produce as part of much broader food service aggregations—comprehensive school nutrition bids encompassing hundreds of line items across vegetables, fruits, grains, proteins, dairy, and prepared goods. The recent opportunities in the source do not isolate frozen non-GMO celery as a discrete line item or focus; they treat produce as one component within larger food supply contracts. When produce is solicited separately, the scope typically encompasses 72 fresh items or 32,000 meals daily across multiple schools, not a single ingredient. School districts and state agencies dominate the issuing bodies, with no evidence of city, county, or transit-authority procurement under this specific code in the recent record.

The geographic concentration is heavily weighted toward Georgia, where the Douglas County School System, City Schools of Decatur, Savannah-Chatham County Public School System, and the State of Georgia itself have posted multiple RFPs and IFBs for produce and grocery items between January and June 2026. Two non-Georgia solicitations appear: Rockwood R-VI School District (Missouri) issued an IFB for grocery items due April 29, 2026, and Dallas Independent School District (Texas) posted an RFP for various food products due April 2, 2026. The source contains no recent solicitations that name frozen non-GMO celery as a standalone requirement or specification. Broader representative opportunities include the Douglas County School System's RFP SN 26-004 for fresh produce and eggs across 30 school districts (due March 4, 2026), the City Schools of Decatur's IFB for frozen foods and grocery items (due May 15, 2026), and the State of Georgia's IFB for fresh produce (due May 27, 2026). This code shows little recent decision-relevant activity at the commodity level; business development effort is better directed toward broader produce-family or grocery-class codes where school nutrition procurement actually occurs.