UNSPSC 27111513: Hose cutter

UNSPSC 27111513 Hose cutter (Commodity) covers hand tools and tool accessories that state and local governments purchase for operational and maintenance use across departments, with recent solicitations spanning pry bars, brooms, brushes, buckets, abrasive rolls, hammers, wrenches, saws, screwdrivers, shovels, and lifting hooks. The work encompasses both brand-specific tool procurement and approved-equal sourcing under multi-year supply agreements, typically with five-year terms and performance standards around on-time delivery and quality rates. Issuing bodies include county purchasing divisions, municipal water and utility authorities, city procurement bureaus, and county departments of financial services. Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners in Florida and the Eastern Municipal Water District in Riverside County, California both posted competitive hand-tool solicitations in the first half of 2026, signaling active and recurring demand for this commodity category across government operations.

Recent activity concentrates in Florida, California, Georgia, and Texas. Hillsborough County posted ITB 26-00285 for hand tools with a five-year estimated value of $715,540.41 and a June 23, 2026 response deadline; the Eastern Municipal Water District posted RFB 3911 for inventory tools and accessories with a five-year term, 80 percent on-time delivery standard, and a April 16, 2026 deadline; the City of Dallas posted BL26-00029896 for a sixty-month ID/IQ hand and power tools master agreement with an April 24, 2026 response deadline and a local preference program for firms within Dallas; and Gwinnett County, Georgia posted an informal written quotation (IWQ 128183) for 125 lifting chain hooks with delivery required by April 3, 2026. Awards typically go to the lowest responsive and responsible bidder across single or multiple vendors, with pricing often expressed as a fixed markup or discount from manufacturer list price or indexed to the Consumer Price Index, and with performance bonds and bid security varying by issuing body.