UNSPSC 10100000: Live animals

UNSPSC 10100000 Live animals is a Family code that encompasses the procurement of live animals for operational, recreational, and program-support purposes in state and local government. Recent activity reveals a narrow but definite scope: state and local jurisdictions are acquiring live animals for aquatic recreation facilities, wildlife habitat restoration, hunting and fishing programs, animal control and sheltering operations, and specialized services such as equine care. The issuing bodies include municipal recreation departments, county animal services divisions, state wildlife and environmental resource agencies, and public universities. Work solicited ranges from operational partnerships for public swimming facilities stocked with structured programs to live game birds for regulated hunting seasons, from ecosystem restoration materials incorporating live fish habitat structures to veterinary services supporting sheltered animals, and from animal control officer recruitment to equine podiatry services at university facilities.

The geographic spread spans Florida, Maryland, Massachusetts, Kentucky, Rhode Island, Alabama, Texas, and Utah in recent months. Representative opportunities include the City of Palm Bay's request for operational models to sustain a 323,775-gallon public aquatic center with existing swim teams and recreational programs due October 7, 2026 (RFS 56RFS26); Prince George's County, Maryland's RFQ for comprehensive veterinary services to support animal shelter operations, with proposals due September 9, 2026 (RFQ WS1806934386), offering 15% MBE and 12% SBE preferences; the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management's supplemental RFQ for 1,500-bird minimum supplies of game farm-reared ringneck pheasants for the state pheasant hunting program, due August 31, 2026 (RFQ27006927); the State of Utah's RFQ for 100 Honey Hole Tree structures and related artificial fish habitat units for community pond enhancement, totaling $34,000, posted May 6, 2026; and Auburn University's sealed bid for equine podiatry services comprising 900 hoof-trimming procedures, 40 draft-horse shoeing procedures, and 20 custom-shoe fabrications at the North Auburn Equine Unit, due June 24, 2026 (AU20260001010).