UNSPSC 10121505: Hay

UNSPSC 10121505 Hay is a Commodity code that encompasses the purchase and delivery of hay products—primarily alfalfa, coastal bermuda, timothy grass, and orchard grass varieties in baled form—for animal feed, ground cover, and erosion control applications at state and local government facilities. State and local governments buy under this code to supply livestock operations, wildlife management areas, correctional facilities, parks, and municipal grounds-maintenance programs. The solicitations show a mix of issuing bodies: state departments (Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts procuring for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department; Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife; Nevada Department of Corrections), county governments (DeKalb County, Georgia; Solano County, California; Dallas County, Texas), municipalities (City of Milton, Florida; City of Philadelphia; City of Conyers, Georgia), and a state university facility (Kentucky Horse Park under Kentucky Finance and Administration Cabinet). Recent work includes supply-and-delivery contracts for livestock and equine operations, wildlife area restocking, and municipal ground-cover applications, typically structured as as-needed or blanket purchase agreements with unit pricing and multi-year renewal options.

Recent activity concentrates in Texas, Oregon, Georgia, Kentucky, Nevada, and Florida. Representative solicitations include the Texas Comptroller's IFB 304T-26-325M2.1 (May 27, 2026) requesting 26 line items of animal feed and hay products totaling thousands of tons for TDCJ facilities; the City of Milton, Florida ITB 2026-04 (due May 27, 2026) for pine straw supply, delivery, and installation at municipal properties on an as-needed basis with unit pricing per roll and four-year renewal options; the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife's ITB for approximately 450 tons of alfalfa hay for the Elkhorn Wildlife Area (due August 31, 2026) with a 10 percent Oregon-bidder preference; the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department's blanket-contract IFB for 3,000 square bales of alfalfa grass hay to Big Bend Ranch State Park (due July 16, 2026) with preferred 14-day delivery cycles; the Commonwealth of Kentucky RFB 758 2600000556 (extended to May 13, 2026) for 129 tons of mixed baled hay and straw annually for the Kentucky Horse Park with best-value scoring emphasizing pricing (90 points) and delivery performance (10 points); and DeKalb County's ITB 2026-085 (due July 23, 2026) for feed, hay, and shavings for Little Creek Horse Farm with same-day delivery requirements. Contracts typically run one to four years with options to renew, firm unit pricing, FOB destination delivery, commercial general liability insurance minimums of $500,000 to $1,000,000 per occurrence, and price-adjustment caps of 3 to 5 percent at renewal. Quality specifications are detailed—moisture content thresholds, weed-free status, leaf-to-stem ratios, bale weight ranges, and compliance with USDA Hay Quality Designation Guidelines—with inspection at vendor facility and destination.