UNSPSC 25111949: Mooring hawser thimble

Hawser is a nautical term for a thick cable or rope used in mooring or towing a ship. A hawser passes through a hawsehole, also known as a cat hole, located on the hawse. The cast-steel Heavy Duty Hawser Thimble is designed for use with wire rope or high-performance synthetic fiber ropes such as AmSteel-Blue, Force-8, and DPX-75. The galvanized thimble provides smooth and even grooves, maximum strength in critical areas, and the proper bending radius for the rope. contains rolls and shackles.

UNSPSC 25111949 Mooring hawser thimble is a Commodity code that covers specialized marine hardware and rigging equipment used in law enforcement and marine operations. State and local governments soliciting under this code seek equipment for marine patrol units, harbor security operations, and waterborne enforcement activities. The issuing bodies include county governments operating marine patrol functions and cooperative purchasing vehicles such as Sourcewell, which aggregate demand across multiple jurisdictions — state departments, counties, cities, school districts, and other public entities — to establish framework agreements for law enforcement and marine equipment.

Recent activity shows two primary opportunity types: Sourcewell issued RFP #061626 on behalf of Participating Entities (including Franklin, Grant, Grays Harbor, Chelan, and Yakima Counties in Washington) for Law Enforcement Equipment with a June 16, 2026 response deadline, structured as a cooperative purchasing vehicle to serve thousands of governmental agencies nationwide and in Canada; Chatham County, Georgia issued an IFB for the purchase of two new Mercury outboard motors for Marine Patrol operations under solicitation 26-0038-4, with a May 4, 2026 response date. The two opportunities reflect divergent procurement patterns — Sourcewell's broad cooperative framework versus direct county procurement of specific equipment — suggesting that mooring and rigging equipment under this code flows through both cooperative vehicles and traditional county-level IFBs. Recent activity centers in the Pacific Northwest and Southeast; the Sourcewell vehicle encompasses multi-state and cross-border participation, while county-level buys remain geographically dispersed and episodic.