UNSPSC 10101605: Live pheasants

UNSPSC 10101605 Live pheasants is a Commodity-tier code that captures state and local procurement of game farm-reared pheasants for public hunting programs and wildlife management operations. State wildlife departments and natural resource agencies acquire live, mature ring-necked pheasants—typically sixteen weeks old or older, male-only or mixed-sex lots, with specific feathering and health standards—for stocking upland game hunting seasons. Issuing bodies are predominantly state departments of fish and wildlife or equivalent natural resource divisions, including Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management Division of Fish and Wildlife, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, and Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife. These procurement activities are driven by seasonal hunting programs and occur on a recurring, often annual cycle to replenish bird populations for public hunt events scheduled during fall and winter months.

Recent activity clusters in California, Maine, and Rhode Island. California Department of Fish and Wildlife issued RFQ-2026-IDR6-001 in July 2026 for 935 male ring-necked pheasants at sixteen weeks old, with pickup dates staggered from November 2026 through January 2027 (bid due August 17, 2026), and RFQ-2026-CR4-GBH-001 in April 2026 for 2,005 male pheasants for fiscal year 2026/27 hunts (quotations due May 11, 2026). Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife, acting through the Office of State Procurement Services, requested approximately 2,000 adult ring-necked pheasants under RFQ 09A 260708-005 (quotations due July 22, 2026) to support the public hunting season under a Master Agreement framework renewable through 2031, with initial delivery required before September 26 and subsequent stockings in October. Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management issued a supplemental RFQ on August 17, 2026, seeking additional qualified vendors to supply game farm-reared pheasants for stocking October through January, with a minimum of 1,500 birds per vendor and delivery to West Kingston, Rhode Island. California's solicitations apply a 5% small-business preference; delivery terms across all opportunities are F.O.B. Destination, Freight Prepaid, with unit pricing and quoted validity periods of 60 to 180 days.