UNSPSC 43221527: Wire tapping protector

A type of device that is installed to prevent any act of attempt to obtain the information illegally by connecting to the communication line directly and indirectly or sense the wireless frequency.

UNSPSC 43221527 Wire tapping protector (Commodity) shows a significant mismatch between its nominal scope and the recent state and local opportunities tagged under it. The opportunities instead reflect telecommunications infrastructure procurement—satellite communications services, VoIP telephone system replacements, fiber optic cabling and installation, wireless and pager services, legacy telephone system maintenance, and law enforcement radio equipment. These solicitations center on voice and data communications systems, network infrastructure, and related hardware and services rather than wire tapping protection equipment. The issuing bodies span state departments (Texas Department of Information Resources, Texas Department of Transportation, State of Illinois Department of Innovation and Technology), counties (Collier County Florida; Santa Clara County California), cities (Long Beach California; Thomasville Georgia), school districts (Fairfax County Public Schools; Hillsborough County Public Schools), and cooperative purchasing vehicles (Sourcewell on behalf of multiple Washington-state jurisdictions). No single buyer dominates; activity is distributed across multiple states and entity types.

Geographic activity concentrates in Texas, Florida, and Virginia, with additional recent solicitations in California, Georgia, Illinois, Minnesota, and Washington. Representative recent opportunities include Collier County Board of County Commissioners' single-source procurement notice (PUR19625) for Skybase Communications satellite-based push-to-talk phone service through July 22, 2026; the Texas Department of Information Resources' indefinite-quantity RFO (TEX-AN-WPS) for cellular, wireless, pager, and satellite voice and data services with responses due July 23, 2026; Fairfax County, Virginia's RFP for IT hardware and related services serving both county government and the public school district, proposals due July 13, 2026; and Hillsborough County Public Schools' ITB for supplemental maintenance and repair of Nortel/Avaya telephone systems and Honeywell security panels. The code shows no recent activity aligned with actual wire tapping protection products, suggesting the code is either misapplied by issuing bodies or sees limited state and local procurement activity under its intended commodity definition.