UNSPSC 43221526: Telephone entry systems

The commodity is used for Telephones to answer your door from any phone in your home. A push of the doorbell sends a distinctive ring to the existing phones, letting you know someone has arrived at the door. The Telephone Entry System includes relays for automatic unlocking and whole house paging to create a complete integrated access control system.

UNSPSC 43221526 Telephone entry systems (Commodity) encompasses cloud-based phone system migrations, hosted VoIP replacements, and maintenance repairs for legacy telephone infrastructure across state and local jurisdictions. Recent solicitations show state and local buyers replacing on-premises systems—Nortel/Avaya, Mitel, CISCO Unified—with cloud-hosted unified communications platforms, with scope including hardware procurement, system design and implementation, training, 24/7 support, compliance certification (E911, Ray Baum's Act, Kari's Law, SOC 2), and multi-year service agreements. Issuing bodies span school districts (largest by activity volume), county public school systems, junior colleges, and municipal governments. Hillsborough County Public Schools in Tampa, Florida, appears as a repeat buyer, posting two separate ITBs in early 2026 for supplemental maintenance and repair services across 235 schools.

The code shows strong recent activity across Florida, Texas, Georgia, and Connecticut. Representative opportunities include Wharton County Junior College (Wharton, Texas) RFP for cloud-based phone system migration across five campus locations due July 8, 2026; Hillsborough County Public Schools (Tampa, Florida) ITBs for maintenance and repair of Nortel/Avaya and Honeywell systems with two-hour emergency response requirements and five-year renewal options, due April 8, 2026 and February 19, 2026; City of New London (Connecticut) RFP for cloud-based unified communications platform migration from CISCO Unified systems with local vendor preference, due March 12, 2026; and Jackson County School System (Jefferson, Georgia) RFP for cloud-hosted VoIP replacement of 1,370 phones with five-year cost-of-ownership analysis, due April 6, 2026. Cooperative purchasing vehicles also appear; Region 7 Purchasing Cooperative (Texas) administered a catalog discount bid for network systems and supplies covering an estimated $6.4 million expenditure across member districts.