UNSPSC 53130000: Personal care products

UNSPSC 53130000 Personal care products (Family) encompasses hygiene and personal-care commodities that state and local governments procure for institutional use, retail resale in correctional canteens, emergency shelter operations, and public health clinic distribution. Recent solicitations show state and local buyers purchasing toothpaste, body wash, bar soap, shampoo, deodorant, denture adhesive, facial moisturizing cream, condoms, lubricants, dental dams, and related items—typically in bulk quantities for delivery to correctional facilities, state health departments, emergency response operations, and county public-health agencies. Issuing bodies span state corrections departments (Missouri, Colorado), county health agencies (Orange County, California), sheriff's offices (Essex County, Massachusetts), state police (Massachusetts), and school districts. Repeat buyers include the Missouri Department of Corrections, which has posted multiple canteen-resale solicitations under this code since June 2026 for toothpaste, hygiene supplies, facial moisturizer, and related items.

Recent activity concentrates in the Southwest (Colorado, Arizona), Midwest (Missouri), and Northeast (Massachusetts), with the most substantial recent opportunity being the City of Tucson's RFP 240078 for Maintenance, Repair, and Operations supplies posted September 30, 2026, with response due March 28, 2024 (note: response date appears backdated in source), seeking an estimated $4 million in annual MRO procurement across 25 product categories through OMNIA Partners cooperative purchasing with a mandatory pre-submittal conference scheduled. Other representative solicitations include the County of Orange Health Care Agency's June 1, 2026 IFB for contraceptives and hygiene products for public health clinics (total not-to-exceed value $150,600 over three years with OCLSB and DVBE preferences), the Missouri Department of Corrections' August 2026 IFB for warehouse hygiene items (estimated $444,488 annually for canteen resale) with domestic-products and organizations-for-the-blind preferences, and the Massachusetts Department of State Police's August 2026 RFR for sanitary and hygiene services (estimated $11,000 annually) restricted to verified small businesses. The Oregon Department of Human Services' open RFA for on-call hygiene services (application deadline December 31, 2026) seeks portable restrooms, hand wash stations, shower facilities, laundry, and waste removal for emergency shelter operations statewide.