UNSPSC 60121520: Charcoal pencils

UNSPSC 60121520 Charcoal pencils is a Commodity code, but the recent state and local opportunities tagged under it show little relevance to the code's nominal scope. Of the nine opportunities in the dataset, only one—Coleman County Purchasing Agency's art supplies bid for 35 Georgia school systems (due September 15, 2026)—explicitly names colored pencils among a broader range of classroom consumables; the remaining eight opportunities span art paper, kitchen renovation, residential housing rehabilitation, design consulting, volunteer recruitment, office and instructional supplies, and utility relocation. The single relevant opportunity covers colored pencils as one line item within a comprehensive art-supplies cooperative purchasing vehicle, alongside markers, crayons, brushes, tempera paints, and modeling clay.

The Coleman County Purchasing Agency bid (PE55964NONST2027000000047) represents the only concrete demand signal under this code. CPA serves 35 Georgia school systems under a cooperative purchasing vehicle, with estimated annual quantities for colored pencil sets running 8,000 units across the member base. Bids were due September 15, 2026 at 9:45 a.m., with pricing quoted F.O.B. CPA's warehouse in Cleveland, Georgia, inclusive of freight. The contract term runs January 1 through December 31, 2027, with Net 30 payment terms and delivery within 30 days of purchase-order issuance. New vendors must submit three references and a W-9 form, and samples are required for brands not currently carried by CPA. Given the mismatch between the code's name and the actual opportunities posted, this code shows limited recent activity and warrants a watch-list approach rather than active pursuit unless your firm has capacity in school-district consumables bidding through cooperative vehicles.