UNSPSC 41114218: Planimeter

A type of device that is designed to measure the width of surrounded part with irregular curves on the plane.

UNSPSC 41114218 Planimeter (Commodity) does not reflect the actual work state and local governments are buying under this code. The recent opportunities posted against this Commodity code overwhelmingly involve maintenance, repair, and warranty services for high-end surveying equipment—specifically Trimble Survey-GPS systems and Leica Geosystems surveying solutions—rather than planimeters as instruments for measuring area on maps. The Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) and Sarasota County are the dominant buyers, each pursuing sole-source maintenance contracts for existing survey equipment inventory. IDOT in particular has posted two separate sole-source procurements within the past three months: a $1,497,317.87 one-year contract to Seiler Instrument for Trimble equipment maintenance across all nine Districts and the Central Office (response deadline June 4, 2026, IFB), and a $194,046.61 one-year contract to Kara Co., Inc. for Leica equipment maintenance (response deadline April 22, 2026, IFB). These contracts cover hardware warranty services, firmware upgrades, software maintenance, network coverage, and component repairs—not measurement devices. The Klein Independent School District RFP for Career Technical Education and Advanced Academics resources (due June 5, 2026, RFP #26-101) includes surveying and mapping equipment tangentially within a broader educational procurement but does not center on planimeters or surveying maintenance. The code appears to be misaligned with current state and local surveying-equipment procurement activity; buyers are tagging maintenance and repair services under a code nominally intended for area-measurement instruments.

Activity under this code concentrates in Illinois and Florida, with IDOT conducting repeat sole-source procurements for survey equipment maintenance and Sarasota County pursuing a single Leica Geosystems procurement. Texas sees limited activity through Klein ISD's broader CTE equipment RFP. The geographic spread is narrow, and the recent-opportunity volume is low relative to the nominal scope of the code. All recent IDOT and Sarasota County procurements are restricted to authorized vendors—Seiler Instrument (Trimble's exclusive Midwest distributor), Kara Co., Inc. (Leica's authorized Illinois service provider), and FLT Geosystems (Leica's exclusive Florida distributor)—because of equipment-manufacturer authorization requirements. No set-asides or disadvantaged-enterprise designations appear in these surveying-focused procurements, though Klein ISD's parallel RFP actively encourages HUB, MWBE, and SBE participation. The code's recent activity does not support a sustained or diversified market for planimeters or area-measurement services in state and local procurement.