UNSPSC 30103612: Railway tie

Treated wood ties used for railroad track and support of roof.

UNSPSC 30103612 Railway tie (Commodity) covers railroad ties and cross ties for railway infrastructure maintenance and construction, but the recent state and local activity shows material divergence from the code's nominal scope. The Maine Department of Transportation's March 2026 RFQ sought treated cross ties in 6"x8" and 7"x9" configurations ranging from 5 to 16 feet in length, along with rail stock, joint bars, track bolts, and tie plates for railway maintenance across multiple Maine locations. However, the most-recent opportunities also include bridge replacement and new construction work—Orange County, Florida's $6,202,246.05 emergency bridge replacement (July 2026), Okaloosa County's precast concrete bridge materials procurement (April 2026), and the City of Palm Bay's Fred Poppe Regional Park bridge and roadway project (August 2026)—where ties are incidental to broader structural work or absent entirely. Washington State Parks' trail structure repair RFQ (August 2026) explicitly calls for removal of existing railroad ties but replacement with precast concrete deck panels and steel railing, not new ties. The issuing-body mix spans state departments (Maine DOT), counties (Orange County, Okaloosa County, Clay County), cities (Palm Bay), and state park agencies, with no repeat buyers under this code in the recent block.

Activity concentrates in Florida and Maine, with single opportunities also in Washington. The Maine RFQ (posted March 24, 2026, due April 1, 2026) represents the only recent opportunity squarely aligned with railway tie procurement; it sought quotations for treated cross ties compliant with AREMA specifications, with delivery to Millinocket, Washington Junction, Portland, Unity, and Rockland. The remaining opportunities—bridge replacements, boardwalk construction at Clay County's Moccasin Slough (February 2026), and park trail repairs—are tagged to this code but do not materially involve railway ties as a procurement line item. The code shows limited and geographically scattered state and local activity, with Maine's rail-maintenance RFQ as the clearest recent match for the code's actual scope.