UNSPSC 20123205: Expandable plug

An expandable plug particularly adapted to plug an engine's oil pan drain hole. The expandable plug includes a threaded bolt, a compression plate assembled with the bolt, and a compression nut assembled with the bolt and adapted to bear against the compression plate. A resiliently deformable section of tubing is assembled in slip fit relation with the bolt, the tubing section being axially compressible and radially deformable but not being a specially molded part.

With the plug located within the pan's drain hole, tightening of the compression nut causes the tubing section to bulge outwardly into a liquid sealing with the hole, and also to bulge inwardly into liquid sealing relation with the bolt, thereby plugging the drain hole against oil flow therethrough.

UNSPSC 20123205 Expandable plug, a Commodity code, shows minimal alignment with actual state and local procurement activity. The single recent opportunity clearly tagged under this code is the City of Tucson Environmental and General Services Division's RFP No. 240011 for Gas Extraction and Removal services, which solicits EPA-certified refrigerant reclamation and documented destruction or recycling of refrigerants extracted from approximately 50 appliance units per week at the Los Reales Sustainability Campus. The work involves extraction, documentation, and compliance reporting rather than the procurement of expandable plugs as discrete products. A second opportunity, Sourcewell RFP #061626 for Law Enforcement Equipment, appears unrelated to the code's scope and suggests misclassification in the tagging system. The code currently shows no clear pattern of activity matching expandable-plug procurement across state and local issuing bodies.

The City of Tucson opportunity, posted September 30, 2026 with a response date of September 19, 2024, is the sole recent solicitation with any connection to the code, though the substantive work is environmental services contracting rather than product procurement. No geographic concentration emerges from recent activity. No repeat buyers, standout jurisdictions, or cooperative purchasing frameworks appear to be using this code for expandable-plug procurement. The mismatch between the code's nominal scope and the actual state and local work recently tagged under it suggests either inconsistent code assignment in the tagging system or minimal current market activity for expandable plugs in state and local procurement channels.