UNSPSC 20121505: Coring equipment

UNSPSC 20121505 Coring equipment is a Commodity code that in recent state and local practice encompasses gas extraction and recovery services, particularly refrigerant extraction and reclamation from appliances and HVAC equipment. The code sees use by municipal environmental and general services divisions pursuing EPA-certified refrigerant reclaimers to manage gas extraction, documentation, and destruction or recycling from collected equipment. Issuing bodies under this code include city environmental agencies and, through cooperative purchasing vehicles, multi-jurisdictional cooperative units aggregating demand across counties and public entities.

The City of Tucson Environmental and General Services Division issued RFP No. 240011 for Gas Extraction and Removal services at the Los Reales Sustainability Campus in September 2026, seeking an EPA-certified refrigerant reclaimer to extract gases from approximately 50 units per week with extraction required at minimum every two weeks and comprehensive documentation of gas destruction or recycling; the response date was September 19, 2024. Recent activity under the code is limited; a parallel June 2026 RFP from Sourcewell (a Minnesota cooperative purchasing vehicle) tagged to this code for Law Enforcement Equipment appears unrelated to the nominal scope of coring and extraction equipment and does not represent substantive demand signals under the code's actual procurement use.