UNSPSC 46151506: Riot batons

UNSPSC 46151506 Riot batons (Commodity) encompasses less-lethal law enforcement equipment and munitions that state and local police and sheriff's offices procure for riot control, crowd management, and force-escalation purposes. Recent state and local solicitations under this code track toward pepperball launchers and projectiles, long-range acoustic devices (LRAD systems), less-lethal ammunition including pepper rounds and gas grenades, and body armor systems — a broader protective-equipment footprint than the code name alone suggests. Issuing bodies are predominantly county sheriffs' offices, city police departments, and state law enforcement procurement offices. Gwinnett County (Georgia) has appeared multiple times in recent weeks, posting separate informal written quotations for pepperball launchers with multiple projectile types and for LRAD equipment; the City of Charlotte (North Carolina) solicited NIJ-compliant body armor for sworn personnel; and Rockland County (New York) issued a cooperative procurement for live ammunition, less-lethal ammunition, and less-lethal gases and grenades available to political subdivisions statewide. A New Jersey statewide procurement (State of New Jersey Department of the Treasury) established a multi-category law enforcement equipment and technology contract spanning nine product families including area security equipment, police video systems, ALPR surveillance, unmanned aerial vehicles, and CBRNE detection alongside traditional less-lethal munitions.

Geographic activity concentrates in the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic (Georgia, North Carolina, New York, New Jersey), with secondary activity in Texas. Gwinnett County's pepperball launcher RFQ (due June 17, 2026) requested 10 units of inert projectiles, 32 units of LIVE-X PAVA projectiles, 2 units of LIVE-MAXX PAVA projectiles, and 4 pepperball TAC-SA PRO semi-auto launchers with accessories, with award to the lowest responsive vendor meeting specification and delivery terms. Rockland County's less-lethal ammunition and gases RFB (due April 23, 2026) established a cooperative contract available to New York State political subdivisions, with awards by manufacturer and product line based on the highest percentage discount off MSRP. The New Jersey statewide procurement (T3163, due June 24, 2026) operates as an indefinite-delivery contract across nine equipment categories with firm percentage-discount pricing, extending to over 2,800 cooperative purchasing participants, and includes SBE and Disabled Veterans-Owned Business set-aside preferences applied during mini-bid evaluation. One recent citation (TxDOT bridge inspection) appears unrelated to riot batons and reflects a source-tagging mismatch rather than genuine procurement activity under this code.