UNSPSC 20123003: Multilateral packers

UNSPSC 20123003 Multilateral packers, a Commodity code, encompasses equipment and services for extracting, recovering, and managing refrigerant gases from appliances and HVAC systems, based on recent state and local procurement activity. State and local governments under this code are actually buying EPA-certified refrigerant recovery and reclamation services — extraction labor, certified technician deployment, gas documentation, and destruction-or-recycling certification rather than packer hardware itself. The issuing bodies include municipal environmental and general services divisions (such as the City of Tucson) and cooperative purchasing vehicles (such as Sourcewell) that aggregate demand across multiple counties, public agencies, school districts, and tribal governments. Recent solicitations reveal a split between direct municipal procurement for sustainability campus operations and multi-jurisdictional cooperative frameworks designed to establish blanket contracting solutions for law enforcement and related equipment needs across thousands of public entities.

Recent activity centers on the Southwest and Upper Midwest. The City of Tucson Environmental and General Services Division posted RFP No. 240011 on September 30, 2026, seeking an EPA-certified refrigerant reclaimer to extract gases from approximately 50 units per week at the Los Reales Sustainability Campus, with a one-year initial term and up to four optional one-year renewals; proposals were due September 19, 2024. Sourcewell, a Minnesota local government unit and service cooperative, issued RFP #061626 on behalf of participating counties in Washington (Franklin, Grant, Grays Harbor, Chelan, and Yakima) and entities nationwide, with proposals due June 16, 2026, to establish a cooperative contracting solution for law enforcement equipment available to thousands of governmental agencies. The second opportunity suggests that UNSPSC 20123003 may be tagged inconsistently across state and local procurement systems — the law enforcement equipment solicitation does not appear directly aligned with refrigerant recovery work, signaling potential classification misalignment in the broader dataset.