UNSPSC 26121616: Telecommunications cable

UNSPSC 26121616 Telecommunications cable, a Commodity code, encompasses fiber optic, copper, and specialty cabling products that state and local governments procure for network infrastructure projects, including middle-mile broadband expansion, traffic control system deployment, institutional Wi-Fi upgrades, and facility-wide data and voice connectivity. Recent solicitations show state and local buyers using the code to tag everything from turnkey engineering-procurement-construction (EPC) contracts for large fiber rings to narrow procurements for specific cable stocks and installation labor, reflecting the code's breadth as a catch-all for telecommunications cabling and related deployment services.

State departments, counties, cities, school districts, transit authorities, and special-purpose districts all solicit under this code. Recent repeat buyers include Hillsborough County, Florida (low voltage cabling on-call contracts), the City of Wichita, Kansas (structured cabling installations at municipal facilities), and Broward County, Florida (traffic control and fiber systems). Activity spans Texas, Florida, Kansas, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Georgia, North Carolina, and California, with no single jurisdiction dominating. Representative recent opportunities include the City of Brownsville, Texas issuing RFQ 29526 for turnkey EPC of approximately 130 route miles of middle-mile fiber optic network expansion (Rings 7–9) funded through the Texas Broadband Development Office, responses due August 18, 2026; Hillsborough County, Florida posting ITB 26-00261 for five-year low voltage cabling services across the county with an estimated value of $9,213,350.00, bids due May 29, 2026; the City of Charlotte, North Carolina soliciting RFP 269-2026-189 for citywide on-call low voltage cabling installation and renovation services with initial three-year term beginning January 1, 2027, proposals due May 18, 2026; and the State of Texas Department of Information Resources issuing RFO COOP2026SOL-00008 for cabling services and related products on behalf of its cooperative contracts program with a 26.0% VetHUB subcontracting goal, responses due June 12, 2026. The code attracts both equipment suppliers responding to narrowly specified material bids and full-service contractors managing design, procurement, construction, testing, and commissioning on indefinite-quantity, as-needed, and fixed-price task order vehicles.