UNSPSC 50612211: Canned or jarred Non GMO winter-over bunching onions

The variety of Non GMO bunching onions known as Non GMO winter-over bunching onions that have been canned or jarred 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 50612211 Canned or jarred Non GMO winter-over bunching onions is a Commodity code that covers shelf-stable preserved onion products for institutional food service. State and local government procurement under this code centers on bulk food supply for correctional facilities, state hospitals, state-supported living centers, school nutrition programs, and senior services, where canned and jarred vegetables are purchased as components of larger food-service contracts rather than as standalone line items. Recent solicitations show this Commodity embedded within comprehensive food-procurement efforts: the Texas Health and Human Services Commission has issued multiple IFBs for food and consumable products serving state-supported living centers and state hospitals statewide, the Oregon Department of Corrections purchases canned vegetables including tomatoes in truckload quantities, school districts across Georgia procure hundreds of line items of canned vegetables as part of nutrition-program bids, and Ben Hill County Schools and Burke County Public Schools both solicited canned fruits and vegetables under Buy American food-service contracts. The mix of issuing bodies is dominated by state health and corrections agencies, with secondary activity from county and school-district nutrition programs.

Recent activity concentrates in Texas, Georgia, and Oregon. The Texas Health and Human Services Commission Procurement and Contracting Services office issued IFB HHS0016792V2 in May 2026 for supplemental food and consumables serving state hospitals and supported living centers statewide—210 line items including canned vegetables with responses due March 19, 2026—and a separate May 2026 IFB (HHS0017449) for El Paso State Supported Living Center with a prior-period historical value of $1.5 million. The Oregon Department of Corrections Purchasing Division posted a June 2026 IFB (S2910000017145) for approximately 7,616 cases of canned tomatoes with Oregon-fabricated goods receiving a 5 percent preference; the previous purchase price was $13.75 per case from California Healthy Harvest. In Georgia, Burke County Public Schools (June 2026 IFB PE55037NONST2027000000007) and Ben Hill County Schools (May 2026 IFB PE61000NONST2027000000006) both solicited comprehensive school-nutrition food including canned vegetables with delivery to multiple school locations. The code shows no distinct recent activity tagged specifically to canned or jarred non-GMO onions; the commodity appears only as an embedded line item within broader vegetable and food-service categories.