UNSPSC 47121702: Waste containers or rigid liners

UNSPSC 47121702 Waste containers or rigid liners (Commodity) spans trash and recycling receptacles, dumpsters, compactors, and related rigid containers that state and local governments procure for departmental and public-facing waste management. Recent solicitations reveal concrete work: the City of Wichita is sourcing trash hauling from 90–95 gallon carts to 8 cubic yard metal dumpsters with weekly or multi-weekly pickup for transit, police, and library facilities under RFB #260146 (due October 23, 2026); the City of Austin is bidding single and dual trash receptacles with keyed locking mechanisms and RFID tags under IFB 1500 MHR1018 (due October 8, 2026); and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey seeks two-year requirements contracts for multi-compartment recycling bins at Newark and JFK airports. Issuing bodies span city procurement departments, county solid-waste programs, regional transit authorities, airport authorities, and state health agencies. Cities including Wichita, Austin, Tampa, Tempe, and Philadelphia dominate recent activity, with county and port authorities contributing secondary volume. Geographic spread includes Texas (Wichita, Austin, Fort Worth), Florida (Tampa, Tempe, Orlando, Marion County), Georgia (Valdosta, Glynn County), California (Long Beach), New York and New Jersey (Port Authority), and scattered activity in Pennsylvania, Arizona, and Minnesota through cooperative purchasing vehicles.

Representative recent opportunities vary in scale and structure. The City of Wichita's RFB #260146 encompasses trash and recycling services across municipal departments with local-vendor preference and a response date of October 23, 2026. The Greater Orlando Aviation Authority awarded a single-source contract for 21-gallon double receptacles from DeepStream Designs valued at $207,500 (not to exceed) for one year to maintain Terminal C standardization. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey seeks two-year supply contracts for multi-compartment custom-wrapped bins at Newark and JFK airports under Bid #6000003297 (due May 12, 2026) and Bid #6000003327 (due May 21, 2026, with five estimated deliveries per month). The City of Philadelphia's Bid #B2727013 (due July 22, 2026) is a requirements contract for receptacles, trash cans, and buckets across city agencies with a 10 percent Local Business Entity preference and estimated expenditure of $150,000 over the initial twelve-month term with four renewal options. The Sourcewell cooperative procurement #061626 (due June 16, 2026) for law enforcement equipment, while nominally broader in scope, demonstrates interstate cooperative mechanisms available to waste-container vendors seeking multi-jurisdictional reach. Texas Health and Human Services Commission issued parallel IFBs (HHS0017243v2, posted May 2026) for 34 covered steel receptacles, and several municipalities including Marion County (Florida) and Glynn County (Georgia) solicit compactors and collection services under multi-year terms. Set-asides and preferences appear selectively—Austin applies 5 percent Local Business discounts on bids up to $500,000 and 3 percent above; Tampa uses Small Local Business Enterprise set-asides; Philadelphia enforces 10 percent LBE preference and prevailing-wage compliance. Sole-source procurements for proprietary containers (metroSTOR, DeepStream) and cooperative purchasing vehicles indicate fragmented demand across multiple issuing bodies with no dominant regional concentration beyond the Texas–Florida corridor.