UNSPSC 30161719: Carpet or rug underlays

UNSPSC 30161719 Carpet or rug underlays is a Commodity code that, in recent state and local solicitations, maps primarily to carpet tile and resilient flooring installation and materials procurement—including carpet tile, sheet vinyl, luxury vinyl tile (LVT), adhesive systems, base materials, and labor—rather than to underlays alone. State and local governments are buying end-to-end flooring replacement and turnover services across facilities: carpet removal, substrate preparation, installation of specified products, and disposal. Issuing bodies span municipalities (city procurement offices, courts, library systems), county governments, school districts, airport authorities, housing authorities, and special-purpose authorities. Recent buyers include Columbus Consolidated Government (Georgia), Hillsborough County Public Schools (Tampa-area), Melbourne Airport Authority (Florida), Superior Court of California County of Butte, Housing Authority of the City of Alameda, Georgia World Congress Center Authority, Texas Southern University, and the Satilla Regional Library System. Jurisdictions are actively soliciting across RFP, RFQ, IFB, and ITB formats, with an emphasis on fixed pricing, prevailing wage compliance where applicable, and performance bonds.

Activity clusters in Florida, Georgia, California, Connecticut, Wisconsin, and Texas, with a statewide open-enrollment master price agreement now under way in Rhode Island. Representative recent opportunities include Columbus Consolidated Government's RFB No. 27-0015 (carpet, tile carpet base, and installation; bids due November 18, 2026, with local-vendor preference of one to two percent) covering as-needed facilities work on a two-year term; Hillsborough County Public Schools ITB 26190-MST (235 schools, 225,000 students; bids due August 6, 2026) soliciting carpet tile, vinyl, LVT, epoxy, and installation across seven product groups with SBE set-aside encouragement; Melbourne Airport Authority's sealed-bid procurement for carpet tile replacement in terminal concourse areas (bids due November 5, 2026; mandatory site visit October 8) specifying Obex Grid Millikin commercial tile and including a 5% bid bond and 100% performance bond; and the Rhode Island Division of Purchases' open-enrollment Master Price Agreement 364 (proposals due June 30, 2030) establishing a qualified vendor list for carpet, tile, wood, and similar products installation and restoration across state and municipal entities. Prevailing wage requirements, insurance minimums ($1 million to $2 million general liability), and bonds (typically 5% bid, 100% performance) appear consistently. Local-vendor preferences and small-business set-asides (SBE, MBE, WBE, DVBE) are common qualifiers.