UNSPSC 10217800: Live geraniums or cranesbills

Live plants including the root balls of the geranium type of flower

UNSPSC 10217800 Live geraniums or cranesbills, a Class code, shows minimal alignment with recent state and local procurement activity. The code's nominal scope covers horticultural plant material, but the five most recent opportunities posted under this code—reconstruction of IT infrastructure at a tennis center, roadway landscaping and irrigation installation, coastal dune stabilization with native plants, five-year environmental planting and maintenance services, and a general plant purchase—reflect a much broader landscape construction, environmental restoration, and facilities management pattern that extends well beyond ornamental geranium procurement. The DeKalb County tennis center ITB (due July 13, 2026) centers on IT and low-voltage cabling infrastructure rather than plantings; the Pasco County IFB (due April 14, 2026) addresses comprehensive irrigation system design and installation of mixed tree, shrub, and groundcover species along a 2.95-mile roadway corridor; the Collier County dune planting procurement is a coastal environmental restoration project involving approximately 56,250 native plants and natural fiber rope; the Pinellas County RFP (due July 29, 2025) seeks five-year environmental management including invasive removal, native plant installation, and wetland monitoring across multiple sites; and the City of Dallas informal solicitation is a straightforward plant purchase with no project scope disclosed.

Issuing bodies include county governments (DeKalb, Pasco, Collier, and Pinellas counties, all in Florida or Georgia), a city procurement bureau (Dallas), and a county utilities or parks division (Pinellas County). Geographic activity concentrates in Florida (three of five opportunities) and extends to Georgia and Texas. The code's tagging appears misaligned with the actual work being solicited—none of the recent opportunities emphasize geranium or cranesbill procurement specifically, and the landscape construction, irrigation design-build, and environmental restoration components are more accurately classified under higher-tier construction or horticulture service codes. State and local procurement offices show no pattern of recent activity specifically targeting live geranium sourcing under this code.