UNSPSC 11171603: Stainless steel alloy 316

A type of stainless steel alloy with the following main characteristics: Cr 16,50 to 18,50 percent, Ni 10,00 to 13,00 percent, Mo 02,00 to 02,50 percent, balance equals Fe + minor metallurgical pollutions. This stainless steel enables protection against moisture and heat corrosion.

UNSPSC 11171603 Stainless steel alloy 316, a Commodity code, shows minimal relevant recent activity in state and local procurement. The code's nominal scope covers specialty stainless steel alloys, but the two recent opportunities posted under it involve coiled aluminum for license plate production, not stainless steel. The third opportunity in the block—pallet rack wire decking for the Los Angeles Superior Court—bears no relationship to either material class. State and local buyers are not currently soliciting stainless steel alloy 316 under this code.

The mismatch between the code designation and the actual goods being procured signals either a tagging error in the state and local procurement systems or a substantive gap between the UNSPSC taxonomy and how jurisdictions are using it in practice. Colorado Department of Corrections' two substantially identical IFBs (posted May 5 and May 19, 2026) for 350,000 pounds of aluminum alloy 3105H21 coil material for the CCi Tag Plant in Canon City represent the only material-procurement activity in the block, with bid deadlines of May 18 and May 22, 2026 respectively and virtual bid openings scheduled for May 19 and May 26. Unless your firm has aluminum-alloy supply capability and can respond to similar license-plate production requests from correctional industries or other state manufacturing operations, this code warrants a skip for stainless steel product lines.