UNSPSC 48131501: Funeral ash box or cremation urn

A container that places the ashes after cremating the body.

UNSPSC 48131501 Funeral ash box or cremation urn, a Commodity code, does not align with the recent state and local solicitations tagged under it. The most active opportunities classified under this code involve autopsy equipment, mortuary transport services, and mass fatality operations—products and services fundamentally different from cremation urns or ash containers. Collin County Medical Examiner (Texas) posted IFB 2026-430 for autopsy cadaver carriers and trays in October 2026, seeking Mopec equipment with an approximate annual contract value of $220,000 and a 60-day delivery requirement. The City of Philadelphia Procurement Department posted a micro purchase for an autopsy cart in September 2026 with a quote cap of $45,000. Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC), procuring on behalf of HHSC and the Department of State Health Services (DSHS), released multiple versions of IFB HHS0017352 for mortality resources and services—including strike team staffing, mortuary trailer deployment, and long-term storage within 125 miles of Waco—with responses due in July, August, and October 2026 and historical spending guidance of $269,485.68 from October 2022 through June 2026. Escambia County's Department of Animal Welfare (Florida) posted an ITQ for walk-in freezer removal and replacement at its animal welfare facility in March 2026. These solicitations reflect procurement of mortuary infrastructure, personnel services, and operational equipment rather than end-user cremation containers.

Issuing bodies include county medical examiner offices, state health and human services agencies, city procurement departments, and county animal welfare departments across Texas, Florida, and Pennsylvania. Recent activity concentrates in Texas, where HHSC has repeated solicitations for mortality resources and DSHS mortuary-trailer operations, and in counties with dedicated medical examiner infrastructure. The code shows little relevant recent activity aligned with its nominal scope; the mismatch between the code name and actual solicitation content suggests either miscoding in state and local procurement systems or that agencies are applying the code inconsistently to cover broad mortality-management and autopsy-related purchases. Business development professionals evaluating this code should investigate whether the state and local procurement offices actually use it for cremation urns or whether opportunities under this code are, in practice, restricted to institutional mortuary equipment and services outside the code's intended scope.