UNSPSC 21101601: Planters

UNSPSC 21101601 Planters (Commodity) represents container plants and nursery stock that state and local governments procure for landscaping, environmental restoration, habitat mitigation, and beautification projects. Recent solicitations show state and local buyers acquiring native container plants in multiple sizes—from liners and plugs to 1-, 5-, and 15-gallon containers—grown to specification by qualified nurseries, along with installation, maintenance, and removal services. The issuing bodies span county environmental and waste agencies (County of Orange, OC Community Resources and OC Waste & Recycling), state environmental services organizations (Maryland Environmental Service), and municipal park or education centers. These jurisdictions typically require multi-year supply agreements with volume commitments, mandatory site visits or pre-bid conferences, and performance standards such as plant survivability guarantees or inventory maintenance provisions.

Recent activity concentrates in California and Maryland. The County of Orange issued two separate RFPs for California native container plants in 2026—one through OC Community Resources (posted June 30, 2026, due January 27, 2026) requiring 83 species across multiple container sizes and an annual order of 5,000 plants minimum, and another through OC Waste & Recycling (posted March 12, 2026, due March 11, 2026) for species in varying sizes across six restoration sites with locally sourced propagation requirements. The County of Orange opportunities each offer local small business (OCLSB) and disabled veteran business enterprise (DVBE) preference deductions of 5 percent or 8 percent combined, along with potential cooperative purchasing extensions. The Maryland Environmental Service solicited sealed bids for tree and shrub supply and installation at Masonville Cove (posted April 2, 2026, due April 30, 2026) with a 20 percent MBE subcontract participation goal and a mandatory site visit on April 14, 2026. Contracts typically run one to three years with renewal options, use firm fixed-fee or usage-based pricing, and require performance and payment bonds. No activity appears under this code for federal law enforcement equipment, school food procurement, or road construction—those solicitations were miscoded and do not reflect planter or nursery-stock procurement.