UNSPSC 47131601: Dust brushes or pans

UNSPSC 47131601 Dust brushes or pans, a Commodity code, covers cleaning tools and containers that state and local governments procure for correctional facilities, public safety operations, and general custodial use across schools, counties, and municipalities. Recent solicitations show demand for specialized equipment — correctional-facility-grade shank-free dust pans constructed from non-sharpenable polymer with heat-resistant properties and orange identification coloring — alongside standard consumable janitorial supplies including brooms, mops, dustpans, and related hand tools distributed to schools and county departments. Issuing bodies include school districts, county governments, cities, state transportation agencies, and special-purpose districts. School districts (Cobb County School District in Georgia, Polk County Schools in Florida, Northside Independent School District in San Antonio, Texas) appear frequently as repeat buyers of custodial equipment under both individual procurements and cooperative purchasing arrangements. County commissioners and city procurement offices (Hillsborough County, City of Dallas, City of Orlando) solicit janitorial supplies including dust control and cleaning tools on annual or multi-year terms. A Georgia-based cooperative purchasing agency (Cooperative Purchasing Agency serving 35 school systems) aggregates demand across a multi-district buying group, consolidating volume to reduce per-unit costs.

Recent activity is concentrated in Florida, Georgia, Texas, and California, with secondary activity in Pennsylvania. Representative solicitations include the City of Philadelphia's micro-purchase for shank-free prison-safe dust pans (RFQ, response due October 5, 2026, under $45,000 contract ceiling with annual CPI-U adjustment), Cobb County School District's bid for custodial equipment distributed across all facilities (IFB B27046, response due September 23, 2026, estimated $550,000 expenditure), Cooperative Purchasing Agency's bid for 60-line-item custodial stock supplies including brooms, mops, and dust control items for 35 Georgia school systems (ITB 2027-001, response due September 30, 2026), and Hillsborough County Fire Rescue's ITB for janitorial and operational supplies for 47 fire stations (ITB 26-00319, response due July 24, 2026, estimated contract value $765,679.84). Northside Independent School District in Texas replaced an expiring custodial supplies RFP with a new solicitation (RFP 2026-071, response due June 4, 2026) noting that all vendors must respond to maintain business continuity. The code shows material state and local buying activity, particularly among school districts and county governments.