UNSPSC 12141913: Tellurium Te

UNSPSC 12141913 Tellurium Te is a Commodity code that does not align with the state and local solicitations appearing under it. The recent opportunities tagged to this code—welding materials, laboratory and medical gases, and Halon gas procurement—contain no tellurium as a named or primary input, and the code's narrow focus on a single element does not reflect the broad industrial-gas and welding-supply categories that state and local buyers are actually purchasing under this tag. The mismatch suggests either miscoding in the source data or use of this code as a catch-all for specialized chemical and gas commodities outside its nominal scope.

The actual buying activity visible in the opportunities block comes from community colleges, a city procurement office, and a university seeking welding consumables (rods, electrodes, sheets, tubes), industrial gases (propane, Halon), and associated equipment on a multi-vendor basis. Collin College has posted two separate three-year welding materials ITBs (FY2024ITB020 and FY2024ITB024) with estimated annual volumes around $400,000 each and evaluation criteria emphasizing price, references, quality, and Texas vendor status. The City of Dallas issued an informal solicitation (IFS) for laboratory, medical, and welding gases with delivery to Municipal Street in March 2026, awarding propane at $1.67 per gallon. The University of Wisconsin-Madison sought Halon gas via RFB in February 2026. Geographic activity clusters in Texas and Wisconsin, with no additional states represented in the block. Vendors should treat this code as poorly aligned with actual tellurium procurement and instead monitor welding-supply and industrial-gas categories where these opportunities actually belong.