UNSPSC 23241801: Drill press or radial drill

The workpiece is clamped securely and the drill is lowered manually by hand wheel or by power feed at preset rates. Radial drills are larger drill presses.

UNSPSC 23241801 Drill press or radial drill (Commodity) does not align with the recent state and local solicitations tagged under this code. The three most recent opportunities—two press brake ITBs from Texas A&M University System (October and September 2026) and one press brake ITB also from Texas A&M (September 2026)—all seek sheet metal forming equipment rather than drilling machinery. A fourth recent opportunity from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (August 2026) is soliciting for an ironworker position, a labor hire unrelated to the code's product scope. Of the remaining opportunities in the block, only two have material relevance: a California RFB (July 2026) for unnamed equipment under asset code ASSET/700-26272/HN26-1166/KM19-84613, and a TxDOT IFB for OEM replacement parts for a Cincinnati Shear machine, a cutting tool also outside drill press scope. The code shows little relevant recent activity under its nominal definition.

When recent opportunities do touch manufacturing equipment, issuing bodies include Texas A&M University System (posting multiple press brake and CNC equipment ITBs through its AggieBid platform), the Texas Department of Transportation (procuring machine-specific parts via IFB), and state procurement offices in California. Geographic concentration is heavily weighted toward Texas and California. The mismatch between the code's stated scope and the actual solicitations suggests either misclassification in the source data or a divergence between UNSPSC taxonomy and operational state and local tagging practice—a condition that limits the code's utility for targeting drill press and radial drill opportunities in this jurisdiction set right now.