UNSPSC 43221700: Fixed network equipment and components

Equipment for transferring terrestrial data and frequencies.

UNSPSC 43221700 Fixed network equipment and components is a Class code covering the telecommunications infrastructure hardware and services that state and local governments procure for voice, data, satellite, and emergency communications. Recent solicitations show substantial buying activity across satellite phone systems with push-to-talk capability (Collier County, Florida), Motorola radios and accessories (Santa Clara County, California), fiber-optic cabling and infrastructure (City of Long Beach, California; Texas DIR cooperative contract), VoIP telephone system replacements (City of Thomasville, Georgia; Covington, Kentucky), legacy telephone system maintenance (State of Illinois), and communication antenna repair and related equipment (Maryland Department of Water and Sewer; Hillsborough County Public Schools). Issuing bodies span state departments (Texas Department of Information Resources, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, State of Illinois), counties (Collier County, Santa Clara County), cities (Long Beach, Thomasville, Covington), school districts (Hillsborough County Public Schools, St. Mary's County Public Schools), and cooperative purchasing vehicles (Sourcewell). The market includes both emergency procurement extensions (Illinois legacy phone maintenance with Ficek Electric & Communication Systems valued at $700,000 through July 2026) and new competitive solicitations establishing multi-year frameworks across multiple jurisdictions.

Geographic activity concentrates in California, Florida, Texas, Georgia, Kentucky, Illinois, Maryland, and Virginia, with Texas and Florida showing repeat procurement activity. Representative recent opportunities include the Collier County Board of County Commissioners issuing a notice of intent to single-source Skybase Communications LLC for satellite-based phone communications with push-to-talk capability on FloridaSatNet, with objections due July 22, 2026; Santa Clara County requesting quotations on Motorola radios and accessories for the Sheriff's Office by June 17, 2026 via RFQ; Hillsborough County Public Schools issuing an ITB for infrastructure communications failure systems covering Nortel/Avaya telephone and Honeywell Vista security system repair across 235 schools, requiring five years' experience and two-hour emergency response, with bids due April 8, 2026; the City of Long Beach rejecting all four bids on April 2, 2026 for a fiber expansion project with scope including 254,822 linear feet of fiber cable, Dura-Line MicroDucts, and 44 line items, with bids ranging from $20.6 million to $22.55 million; and Texas DIR soliciting cabling services and related products for cooperative contracts with responses due June 12, 2026, establishing indefinite-quantity contracts with no minimum purchase guarantees. Contract terms typically range from three to five years with renewal options, and pricing is frequently firm-fixed or cost-plus with material markups capped at 15 percent.