UNSPSC 23242203: Gear honing machine

Gear honing machines use a plastic gear impregnated with fine abrasive particles. The process is faster than grinding and is used to improve the surface finish.

UNSPSC 23242203 Gear honing machine, a Commodity code, does not map to the work state and local governments are currently soliciting under this designation. The recent opportunities tagged to this code—industrial CNC routers, press brakes, 3D printers, and law enforcement equipment—represent general manufacturing and fabrication tools and public-safety goods with no connection to gear honing. The Texas A&M University System has posted multiple ITBs for shop equipment (press brakes, 3D printers, and CNC routers) through its AggieBid procurement platform, while Sourcewell, a Minnesota-based cooperative purchasing vehicle, issued an RFP for law enforcement equipment on behalf of multiple county and municipal jurisdictions across the United States and Canada. These solicitations reflect institutional and regional purchasing activity but bear no relation to specialized gear-finishing machinery.

The geographic reach includes Texas (Texas A&M System, which coordinates procurement for multiple campuses and system offices) and a multi-state cooperative vehicle administered from Minnesota serving Franklin County, Grant County, Grays Harbor County, Chelan County, and Yakima County in Washington, along with participating entities nationwide. The most recent Texas A&M opportunities closed in October 2026—an ITB for an industrial CNC router due October 23, 2026 (TAMUSITB270546) and an ITB for a press brake due October 29, 2026 (TAMUSITB270548)—with all submissions handled through AggieBid and questions directed to Sterling Crowdus at soprocurement@tamus.edu. The Sourcewell RFP #061626 for law enforcement equipment closed June 16, 2026. The code shows little relevant recent activity; the mismatch between the nominal scope (gear honing) and the work actually being solicited (general manufacturing equipment and law enforcement goods) suggests either a cataloging error or posting-system misclassification rather than active procurement of gear-honing machinery by state and local buyers.