UNSPSC 48131502: Coffin

A coffer that places the death body for burial or cremation.

UNSPSC 48131502 Coffin is a Commodity code that covers mortuary and funeral services equipment and supplies, including mortuary trailers, body storage and processing infrastructure, and related operational resources for mass fatality response and emergency management. State and local governments procure under this code primarily through health and human services departments and municipal governments preparing for public health emergencies, disaster response, and routine cemetery and mortuary operations. The Texas Health and Human Services Commission has emerged as a repeat buyer, issuing three successive iterations of the same mortality resources and services contract (IFB HHS0017352, HHS0017352v2, and HHS0017352v3) over a four-month window between July and October 2026, indicating active refresh or recompetition of critical mass fatality response capability. The scope extends beyond equipment procurement to include staffing of strike teams with licensed funeral directors and trained personnel, maintenance of mortuary trailers, and deployment readiness for emergency response.

Recent activity concentrates in Texas and Georgia. The Texas Health and Human Services Commission's mortality resources contracts (posted July 1, August 18, and October 14, 2026, with response dates of July 17, September 9, and October 28, 2026 respectively) require contractors to maintain four 32-foot mortuary trailers, establish four strike teams, and deploy personnel within 24 to 48 hours of notification, with strike team personnel capped at Federal Pay Scale rates (GS-12-Step 10 for licensed funeral directors, GS-8-Step 10 for non-licensed staff). Historical spending on similar mortality services totaled $269,485.68 from October 2022 through June 2026, with no volume guarantee provided. The City of Savannah issued an IFB for the Evergreen Cemetery Expansion Project (Event No. 12415) due July 21, 2026, applying DBE provisions; scope details are not disclosed in the source. The City of DeBary, Florida solicited irrigation system improvements for Rob Sullivan Park (Bid 0315, due April 10, 2015) at an estimated cost of $90,000, which does not align with the code's mortuary services scope and appears to be a tagging mismatch.