UNSPSC 27112013: Post hole digger

UNSPSC 27112013 Post hole digger (Commodity) covers equipment used to excavate holes for fence posts, utility poles, and similar ground-anchoring applications; recent state and local solicitations show this code tagged primarily for grain-auger procurement. The Commonwealth of Kentucky Finance and Administration Cabinet posted two nearly identical IFBs (RFB 758 2700000152 and RFB 758 2700000151, both due July 24, 2026 at 1:30 p.m. ET) for two specific grain-auger models—a Westfield WRX80-61 SD 8-inch auger with 61-foot tube and a Westfield MKX21073 10-inch auger with 73-foot tube—for the Western Kentucky Correctional Complex Correctional Industries Farms in Fredonia. Both solicitations use best-value evaluation (90 points for lowest price, 10 points for delivery time), require firm pricing for 12 months and Commercial General Liability insurance of $1 million per occurrence and $2 million aggregate, and impose a "Group All" bidding requirement; Kentucky resident bidders and Kentucky Correctional Industries qualify for statutory preferences of up to 20 and 15 percent respectively. The remaining opportunities in the source block—a Florida county trail-construction project, a county fire-rescue janitorial-supplies contract, municipal work-site services, and utility-locating services—are plainly unrelated to post hole diggers or augers and appear to reflect UNSPSC coding misfires or automated tagging errors.

The recent activity under this code shows limited geographic spread and issuing-body diversity. Kentucky dominates the identifiable opportunities, with the Department of Corrections' two re-solicitations (following a June 22, 2026 closure without award on RFB 758 2600000633) representing the substantive state-local procurement signal. No other state or local jurisdictions appear in the recent record for auger or post hole digger procurement. The code's apparent misuse across unrelated infrastructure and facility categories suggests that the taxonomy tagging is inconsistent or that the code sees minimal genuine demand in state and local markets outside this narrow farm-equipment use case. Vendors actively serving the agricultural corrections or farm-equipment sector in Kentucky should monitor the re-solicitations closely; however, the repeated closure without award and rapid re-issue indicates either specification or bidder-qualification challenges that merit careful pre-bid review and early contact with the Commonwealth's procuring office (Keith Srutowski, 502-564-7007).