UNSPSC 20131101: Ceramic proppants

UNSPSC 20131101 Ceramic proppants (Commodity) shows minimal recent state and local procurement activity aligned with its nominal scope. The two most recent opportunities tagged to this code do not involve ceramic proppants or proppant services at all. The City of Tucson Environmental and General Services Division issued RFP No. 240011 for EPA-certified refrigerant reclaimer services—extracting gases from approximately 50 appliance units per week with documentation of gas destruction or recycling. Sourcewell, a Minnesota cooperative purchasing vehicle, issued RFP #061626 for law enforcement equipment to be made available to thousands of governmental agencies, school districts, and public entities across multiple states and Canada. Neither solicitation relates to ceramic proppants, which are typically used in oil and gas hydraulic fracturing operations and not a common state and local procurement category.

The mismatch between the code's nominal scope and recent activity suggests this Commodity code does not reflect actual state and local buying patterns. No other recent opportunities under UNSPSC 20131101 appear in the source. State and local procurement in this space, if it occurs at all, may be misclassified at posting or routed through cooperative purchasing vehicles serving extractive industries rather than general municipal, county, or school district procurement channels. Business development professionals should verify whether this code reflects active demand within the jurisdictions they target or whether opportunities in this space are tagged differently at posting.