UNSPSC 12131504: Explosive charges

UNSPSC 12131504 Explosive charges is a Commodity code that maps poorly to the recent state and local solicitations bearing this tag. The three most recent opportunities—pavement rehabilitation, guardrail replacement, and roadway resurfacing projects—involve asphalt overlay, concrete work, traffic control, and safety barrier installation, but do not reference explosive charges, blasting, or demolition by detonation. The code appears to be either misapplied by the issuing jurisdictions or applied to incidental site-preparation or structural-removal phases that the public summaries do not detail. State and local governments do procure blasting and explosive services for highway construction (rock removal, foundation work), bridge demolition, and site clearing, but the recent opportunities tagged to this code do not explicitly surface that work in their scope statements.

The recent activity cluster centers on California and Georgia county-level road and infrastructure projects. Santa Clara County, California posted two ITB notices in March and April 2026 for expressway guardrail replacement (due April 23, 2026) and pavement rehabilitation on Central Expressway between Bowers Avenue and Scott Boulevard (due May 21, 2026). Barrow County, Georgia issued an ITB for Wynn Lake Road resurfacing (due March 18, 2026) through the Local Maintenance and Improvement Grant program. None of these opportunities explicitly solicits explosive charges or blasting services in the published scope. If your firm provides blasting, demolition, or site-preparation services, this code shows limited recent signal—pursue only if you can confirm from detailed bid documents that explosive work is embedded in the general construction scope.