UNSPSC 22101624: Road marking machine

A motor-driven vehicle used to mark characters, symbols and lines on the paved roadway for traffic control.

UNSPSC 22101624 Road marking machine (Commodity) describes the equipment used to apply or remove pavement markings on roadways, but recent state and local solicitations under this code show little activity directly procuring the machines themselves. Instead, state and local governments are buying road striping services—the labor and application work—far more frequently than they are purchasing the marking equipment. The bulk of recent activity consists of counties and cities issuing IFBs and ITBs for paint striping, thermoplastic application, and pavement marking removal across highway segments, parking areas, and airport aprons, typically specifying contractor-supplied equipment and UDOT or GDOT-compliant materials. A small subset of solicitations does target striping equipment: the Texas Comptroller procured six truck-mounted thermoplastic paint stripers for the Texas Department of Transportation (Solicitation 304T26072A11, due January 7, 2026), and the State of California issued IFBs for tender and stencil bodies with turnkey paint and diesel chassis (Solicitations 32126651 and 32126650, posted May 2026). These equipment acquisitions are outliers; the commodity code's actual recent activity is dominated by service contracts rather than equipment sales.

Issuing bodies soliciting striping work span county departments of public works (Weber County, Utah; White County, Georgia; Bryan County, Georgia; Boulder County, Colorado; Santa Clara County, California), small cities (Heber City and American Fork City, Utah; Fairburn, Georgia; Peoria, Arizona), a higher-education institution (Hudson Valley Community College, SUNY), an airport authority (Okaloosa County at Valparaiso Regional Airport, Florida), and a regional cooperative purchasing vehicle (Sourcewell). Geographic spread is concentrated in the West and Southeast: Utah, California, Georgia, Colorado, Texas, Arizona, and New York account for the most recent and numerous postings. Representative recent opportunities include Weber County Roads Department requesting paint striping across four geographic sections with two pricing scenarios reflecting municipal boundary uncertainty (Solicitation 26188, due July 21, 2026); Boulder County Public Works procuring removal of old striping and application of new 6-inch epoxy marking across 55.99 miles of roadway (Bid BID-275-26, due April 30, 2026); Heber City Corporation soliciting yellow and white striping with crosswalks and stop bars across the entire city (Solicitation NS26144, due June 11, 2026 with pre-bid conference June 1, 2026); and Bryan County Board of Commissioners requesting approximately 65 miles of road striping plus installation of 5,440 Raised Pavement Markers under LMIG funding (Solicitation PE77523NONST2026000000076, due June 18, 2026). Contract terms typically run one year with no guaranteed footage or volume, and response deadlines cluster in the late spring and early summer months.