UNSPSC 31381404: Plastic bonded machined isotropic neodymium magnet

Plastic bonded isotropic neodymium magnet that has been machined

UNSPSC 31381404 Plastic bonded machined isotropic neodymium magnet, a Commodity code, shows minimal alignment with actual state and local procurement activity. The single recent opportunity tagged to this code—the City of Midland, Texas solicitation for fire hydrants under project U25-01—involves the procurement of conventional cast-iron or ductile-iron fire hydrants (45 units of 4-foot, 20 units of 5-foot, and 6 units of 6-foot models) delivered F.O.B. to the City. Fire hydrants are infrastructure components with no obvious connection to plastic-bonded neodymium magnets, the material specification that defines this Commodity code. The mismatch suggests either a tagging error in the source or a highly specialized application not evident from the procurement summary.

The Midland solicitation, posted March 26, 2026, with a response deadline of April 9, 2026, operated through the Bonfire e-procurement system and applied Texas Local Government Code preferences including a five-percent local-bid threshold and workers' compensation insurance mandates. No incumbent vendor was identified, and no award value or budget range was disclosed. Beyond this single opportunity, the source does not identify additional recent state and local contract activity under this code, and the geographic and issuing-body patterns cannot be characterized from the available data. If neodymium-magnet procurement is occurring within state and local markets, it is not surfacing under this code designation in current public notices.