UNSPSC 60101810: Patens

UNSPSC 60101810 Patens (Commodity) encompasses religious and faith-based items supplied through state and local correctional and institutional procurement channels. Recent solicitations show this code capturing faith-related goods — Bibles, Qur'ans, prayer rugs, yarmulkes, medicine bags, and spiritual supplies across Christian, Islamic, Jewish, and Native American traditions — procured for canteen resale to incarcerated persons, alongside generic irrigation equipment and law enforcement supplies that appear to be miscoded under this taxonomy. State correctional departments dominate the issuing bodies on record, with the Colorado Department of Corrections posting multiple RFQs for faith items intended for canteen services at correctional facilities, though the code also captures infrastructure improvement projects and cooperative purchasing vehicles that do not align with the stated commodity scope.

Colorado is the primary jurisdiction showing recent activity under this code, with the Colorado Department of Corrections issuing RFQ 2026000061 and RFQ 2026000062 (both posted in May and June 2026, respectively) for faith items — canteen supplies for resale to offenders, with quotations due June 9 and June 16, 2026. Bidders must submit 3–5 product samples at their expense for Canteen Review Committee evaluation, with products required in plastic containers (glass and metal prohibited), delivery Monday–Thursday, 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. MST, and drivers subject to criminal background clearance. The contract term runs July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2027, with renewal potential through June 30, 2029. SDVOSB certification is requested but not mandatory. The City of DeBary, Florida posted a separate irrigation system improvement bid (0315) on October 19, 2026, with an April 10, 2015 deadline and $90,000 engineer's estimate, suggesting misalignment between code assignment and actual scope. A Sourcewell cooperative RFP (061626, due June 16, 2026) for law enforcement equipment serving five Washington counties and nationwide public entities similarly falls outside the faith-items commodity definition.