UNSPSC 31162314: Tile spacer

UNSPSC 31162314 Tile spacer (Commodity) shows minimal relevant recent state and local procurement activity. The code nominally addresses tile spacers as discrete building materials, yet recent state and local opportunities posted under this code involve custodial supplies (Region 7 Purchasing Cooperative catalog bids), station alerting audio parts (City of Austin), law enforcement equipment (Sourcewell), and general hardware and lumber supplies (Donna Independent School District). None of these solicitations involve tile spacers or tiling materials, indicating a systematic mismatch between the code classification and actual procurement scope. The state and local buyers issuing these misclassified opportunities span school districts, city procurement offices, county purchasing cooperatives, and statewide cooperative purchasing vehicles across Texas, Washington, and Minnesota, but their actual purchases address building maintenance supplies, specialized equipment, and construction materials well outside the tile spacer category.

No concrete state and local procurement opportunities for tile spacers or tile-related building materials appear in the recent record. The code does not report meaningful activity in its nominal commodity area, and the opportunities tagged to it appear to reflect data-classification errors rather than genuine tile spacer demand. Business development professionals evaluating this code should treat it as inactive for state and local pursuit unless direct demand from facility management or construction divisions emerges outside the cooperative purchasing and standard RFP/IFB channels surveyed here.