UNSPSC 31161831: Finger spring washer

A type of washer designed to reduce noise and vibration and to prevent excess wear especially at high speeds.

UNSPSC 31161831 Finger spring washer, a Commodity code, does not reflect meaningful recent state and local procurement activity aligned with its nominal scope. The two recent opportunities posted under this code—a comprehensive water treatment plant infrastructure project in Georgia and a transit authority purchase order for lock washers in Texas—reveal a significant classification mismatch: the water treatment plant bid (City of Lavonia, sealed competitive bid, due May 26, 2026) involves heavy civil construction services, site work, and equipment installation, not component-level fastening hardware, while the DART transit authority procurement (purchase order, due January 28, 2026) is a straightforward goods buy for industrial fasteners that aligns with the code's product definition but represents routine inventory replenishment rather than a sustained procurement market segment.

State and local governments show no coherent buying pattern under this Commodity code in the recent record. The two issuing bodies—a municipal water utility and a regional transit authority—operate in different functional areas (public works capital projects and transit operations) and are not repeat buyers. Georgia and Texas both appear once. The code's nominal product definition (finger spring washers) does not map to the water treatment construction scope, suggesting a tagging or classification error in the state procurement system rather than authentic demand signal. A business development professional should treat this code as inactive for procurement strategy purposes and verify classification before investing competitive resources.