UNSPSC 20101709: Ball mills

UNSPSC 20101709 Ball mills (Commodity) covers laboratory testing services for municipal water, wastewater, and groundwater compliance — a mismatch between the code's nominal scope and what state and local governments are actually procuring under it. The City of Palm Bay, Florida issued ITB 19-ITB-26 in April 2026 for comprehensive laboratory testing across water treatment facilities, wastewater treatment facilities, groundwater monitoring wells, and industrial pretreatment programs, with 188 line items spanning water testing, wastewater analysis, industrial pretreatment testing, and courier services. The work requires certified laboratories with a minimum of five years' experience serving municipal utilities, Florida Department of Health Environmental Laboratory Certification Program accreditation, and NELAP certification; analytical work must be performed in-house, and the contractor must be located within one hundred miles of the City's primary campus with 75 percent of work performed at the primary laboratory. The contract term runs twelve months with four optional twelve-month renewals for a sixty-month maximum, compensated on a unit-price basis with individual analyses ranging from $0 for calculated field measurements to $425 for specialized testing such as Cryptosporidium analysis. The sole recent opportunity in the source block shows no wider pattern of state and local procurement activity under this code.

The City of Palm Bay's ITB 19-ITB-26 closed on March 17, 2026, with three bids received: Advanced Environmental Laboratories, Inc. at $80,872.00, Flowers Chemical Laboratories, Inc. at $91,775.40, and Pace Analytical Services, LLC at $107,946.10. The City's historical spending — $66,360 in 2024 and $95,440 in 2025 — establishes the budget context. The code shows little relevant recent activity; the single municipal laboratory-testing opportunity present in the source does not reflect procurement of ball mills or mill-related equipment, suggesting either a tagging error in state and local systems or that genuine ball mill procurement under this code does not appear in recent activity.