UNSPSC 64101804: Procurement card

A procurement card is a type of company charge card used for smaller purchases to achieve greater cost efficiency, control and convenience. Procurement cards are also known as purchasing cards, P-Cards or PCards. Procurement cards can be tied to either a credit card or a bank account.

UNSPSC 64101804 Procurement card is a Commodity code. State and local governments use procurement cards (P-cards) to streamline purchasing, manage agency expenses, control spending through merchant category restrictions, and reduce administrative overhead across departments. Recent solicitations show departments procuring comprehensive card programs encompassing physical and virtual cards, real-time online account access, fraud protection, transaction controls, and integration with enterprise resource planning systems. The issuing bodies range across state agencies, county governments, municipalities, school districts, and transit authorities, with no dominant buyer pattern in recent activity.

Procurement-card solicitations appear nationwide with activity concentrated in Texas (City of Fort Worth, City of Kingman), Georgia (Gwinnett County, Cobb County School District, Fulton County Schools), California (multiple transit agencies, San Mateo County), Washington State (WDFW, University of Wisconsin system), Illinois (State Board of Education, Department of Agriculture), Florida (Burke County, Pinellas County, Orlando, Palm Bay), Ohio (Cuyahoga County), Virginia (City of Alexandria), and other jurisdictions. Representative recent solicitations include Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners' sealed proposal for merchant processing services due July 30, 2026, covering credit, debit, and e-check transactions across 175 terminals processing $278.4 million annually; the City of Alexandria, Virginia's RFP 2017 for transportation stipend card management services due August 20, 2026, supporting approximately 750 participants with prepaid debit cards and fraud monitoring; the City of Fort Worth's RFI for P-card compliance solutions (due August 10, 2026) seeking automated vendor spending threshold controls integrated with Oracle PeopleSoft; and Fulton County Schools' RFP 166-26 for card services covering purchasing cards, travel cards, fuel cards, and stored-value cards due March 5, 2026, with current annual volume exceeding $28.8 million across 439 cards. The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife's fleet-card RFP (due June 30, 2026) projects approximately $1.6 million in annual fuel purchases, while the Illinois State Board of Education and multiple California transit districts also actively procure card services, indicating consistent demand across agencies for vendor consolidation, real-time compliance reporting, and cost control capabilities.