UNSPSC 25181718: Cable reel trailer

A trailer with one or more reels installed to facilitate laying or retrieving telephone or power wires or cables.

UNSPSC 25181718 Cable reel trailer is a Commodity code covering specialized trailers designed for transporting, storing, and managing cable and wire reels. State and local governments procure under this code to support utilities infrastructure, telecommunications, power distribution, water authority operations, and public works projects where cable and wire transport and staging are critical operational needs. The recent opportunities show active procurement across utility authorities, county governments, state departments, and municipalities acquiring single units and small batches for specialized equipment transport, storage, and field deployment. Representative recent solicitations include the Kissimmee Utility Authority's sole-source procurement of a custom 20-by-96-inch heavy-duty galvanized trailer with a removable reel holder for wire pulling, and the City of Norwich, Connecticut's ITB for a self-loading reel trailer accommodating 96-inch-diameter cable and wire reels with hydraulic load and payout systems. The code also captures adjacent specialized trailer types — mortuary trailers, poultry processing trailers, dump trailers, hygiene trailers, command post trailers, and utility maintenance trailers — that state and local agencies are actively soliciting for emergency response, public safety, waste management, and infrastructure support. Mixed issuing bodies include county utilities (Kissimmee Utility Authority, Macon Water Authority), city governments (Norwich, San Antonio, Perry), transit authorities, fire and emergency management agencies, corrections departments, state universities, and county fleet departments.

Geographic activity spans Texas (TxDOT dump trailers, Texas A&M mobile concession trailer, Texas DHCJ refrigeration and dry van trailers), Florida (Kissimmee, Sarasota County, Pinellas County, Hillsborough County), Georgia (Fort Valley State University poultry trailer, Habersham County grapple trailers, Macon Water Authority dump and maintenance trailers, Pickens County recycle trailers, Valdosta tractor/trailer combination), California (Sacramento County lowboy and enclosed utility trailers), Connecticut (Norwich reel trailer), and multistate procurement vehicles (Sourcewell trailers with related equipment, State of Texas Comptroller statewide heavy-duty trailers). Recent high-visibility opportunities include the Texas Health and Human Services Commission's IFB for mortuary resources and services involving four 32-foot DSHS mortuary trailers deployed statewide with strike team personnel (responses due October 28, 2026), Habersham County's dual RFQs for commercial grapple dump trailers for storm debris management with dual-axle 22,000-pound GVWR rated hydraulic grapples (due October 15 and September 16, 2026), and Sacramento County's RFB for a 35-ton lowboy equipment trailer with air-ride suspension and flip-tail ramps (bids due August 3, 2026). Activity is notably concentrated in operational and maintenance-heavy jurisdictions — utilities, public works departments, emergency management, and county fleet divisions — rather than one-time capital acquisitions by smaller municipalities.