UNSPSC 64111501: Common or ordinary stock

A security that represents an ownership share in a corporation. Holders are typically entitled to vote and receive dividends. Other types of shares preclude or otherwise restrict voting rights. In the event of liquidation, shareholders usually rank behind the entity's creditors and holders of preferred/preference shares

UNSPSC 64111501 Common or ordinary stock is a Commodity code that in recent state and local procurement activity does not reflect the nominal code classification. The posted opportunities tagged with this code encompass employee benefit consulting and brokerage services, investment consulting for OPEB trusts, arbitrage consulting for tax-exempt bond compliance, commercial real estate transaction services, unclaimed property auditing and collection, and agency travel card services. These solicitations span professional advisory and transaction-facilitation work rather than acquisition of tangible commodities, indicating either systematic miscoding at issuing bodies or use of the code as a catch-all placeholder for miscellaneous consulting and financial services. The issuing bodies include counties (Henry County, Georgia; Okaloosa County, Florida; Williamson County, Texas), cities (Sarasota, Florida; Dallas, Texas; St. Petersburg, Florida; Milton, Florida), school districts (Schertz-Cibolo-Universal City ISD, Texas), state agencies (Washington Department of Revenue, Illinois State Board of Education), and higher-education institutions (University System of Georgia, Texas A&M University, George Mason University). No single buyer recurs prominently; benefit-consulting solicitations from Henry County, Williamson County, and Sarasota appear most frequently.

Geographic activity concentrates in Texas (three benefit-consulting and one real estate RFP), Florida (three opportunities spanning investment consulting, arbitrage, and tax credit brokerage), and Georgia (two from state entities and one county), with additional postings in Washington and Virginia. Representative recent opportunities include Henry County, Georgia's RFP 27-01 for employee benefit consulting and broker services due August 11, 2026, which emphasizes qualifications and staff experience (35 and 30 points respectively) with cost weighted at only 5 points; the City of Sarasota's RFP #26-36HR for OPEB trust fund investment consulting due August 19, 2026, managing approximately $60 million in assets; Okaloosa County, Florida's ITQ for arbitrage consulting services due July 15, 2026, covering tax-exempt bond compliance and rebate calculations; and Williamson County, Texas's RFP 26RFP50 for benefit broker consulting services closed July 9, 2026. The code shows no coherent commodity-level purchasing pattern and is worth monitoring primarily to track issuing-body misclassification practice rather than as a genuine indicator of state and local procurement demand under its stated definition.