UNSPSC 21101602: Transplanters

UNSPSC 21101602 Transplanters is a Commodity code with minimal alignment to recent state and local opportunities. The code nominally describes plant transplanters—motorized or equipment-based machines that lift and relocate plants—yet the recent opportunities block shows only one solicitation directly relevant to that scope: the State of Illinois procurement for a single plant lifter unit at Mason Nursery, posted October 6, 2026 with bids due October 13, 2026, specifying a three-point hitch Category II attachment, 60-inch cutting width, 540 PTO clamping drive line, side shields, depth gauge wheels, 10-inch shaker tines, hydraulic top link, and 5/8-inch thick lifter blade with 8-inch depth capability. The remaining opportunities tagged to this code—heavy-duty trailers for the City of Atlanta Department of Public Works (IFB posted October 8, 2026, due October 21, 2026), a grapple dump trailer for Habersham County Board of Commissioners in Georgia (due October 14, 2026), tree and stump removal for Sacramento County (due October 22, 2026) and the City of Pasadena (due October 19, 2023), street tree planting for the City of Jackson, Michigan (due July 14, 2026), and tree replacement for the City of Palm Bay, Florida (due June 2, 2026)—are plainly unrelated to plant-transporting equipment. The code shows little relevant recent activity; these mistagged opportunities reflect forestry and grounds maintenance procurement rather than equipment designed to relocate plants.

Geographic activity centers on Illinois (the Mason Nursery opportunity) with scattered unrelated opportunities in Georgia, California, Michigan, and Florida. The State of Illinois is the only repeat buyer aligned to the code's actual scope. Issuing bodies across recent postings are primarily county governments and municipal departments of public works, though school systems appear in unrelated forestry and food procurement. The scarcity of genuine transplanters solicitations—one opportunity out of eleven postings—signals either underutilization of this code by state and local procurement offices or persistent misclassification of grounds-maintenance and equipment-repair work at the commodity level.