UNSPSC 23241905: Surface broaching machine

A type of broaching machine that shapes the surface of a material by using a surface broach. Surface broach types include slab, slot, contour, dovetail, pot, and straddle.

UNSPSC 23241905 Surface broaching machine is a Commodity code that describes specialized metal-cutting equipment, but state and local procurement activity under this code is minimal and not directly aligned with the nominal scope. The single recent opportunity tagged with this code is Sourcewell RFP #061626, issued on behalf of a Minnesota state cooperative and participating counties (Franklin, Grant, Grays Harbor, Chelan, and Yakima Counties in Washington, plus jurisdictions nationwide), which seeks to establish a master contract for law enforcement equipment — a category bearing no relation to industrial broaching machinery. The source provides no evidence of state and local governments actually procuring surface broaching machines through competitive solicitation, and the law enforcement equipment RFP appears to have been miscoded or cross-tagged with this UNSPSC designation without operational relevance.

The mismatch between the code's industrial-manufacturing scope and the law enforcement equipment focus suggests this code does not reflect active state and local procurement demand for broaching machinery. No geographic concentration of broaching-equipment activity emerges from the available record, and no representative solicitations for the equipment class itself are documented. Firms evaluating this code should treat it as inactive for state and local business development purposes and focus resources on codes that more directly align with their product or service portfolio.