UNSPSC 64131605: Time and materials contract

A type of contract used for acquiring supplies or services on the basis of direct labor hours at specified fixed hourly rates that include wages, overhead, general and administrative expenses, and profit; and actual cost for materials.

UNSPSC 64131605 Time and materials contract, a Commodity code, does not represent a discrete product or service category but rather a contracting vehicle — a method for pricing and paying for work when scope, duration, or resource requirements are uncertain at the outset. State and local governments do not buy "time and materials contracts" as such; they issue them to procure diverse services and construction work across dozens of functional areas where fixed-price bidding is impractical. The recent opportunities tagged to this code show acute misclassification: the posted solicitations span owner-occupied housing rehabilitation in Hillsborough County, legislative lobbying in Garden City Georgia, database hosting for a behavioral health program in Colorado, highway crack sealing in Oregon, and city manager recruitment in Georgia. None of these services share a common commodity or work type; the code classification appears to reflect the contracting method rather than the actual deliverables. State and local procurement offices issuing under this code come from county departments, state behavioral health administrations, state transportation departments, and city governments, but the spread across unrelated functional areas suggests systematic tagging error rather than genuine activity concentration in a single work family.

The geographic distribution is equally dispersed, with recent activity in Florida, Georgia, Colorado, and Oregon. Representative opportunities include Hillsborough County's RFP2600332 for owner-occupied housing rehabilitation (RFP, due August 5, 2026, $7.5 million estimated budget), the City of Garden City, Georgia's PE66061NONST2026000000074 for legislative lobbying services (RFP, due July 2, 2026), the Colorado Department of Human Services' database hosting procurement (Documented Quote Request, due April 25, 2026, $50,000 annual budget), and the Oregon Department of Transportation's ESB-restricted highway crack sealing projects (RFCQ, due March 3–9, 2026). This code shows no coherent procurement pattern; the commodities purchased, issuing body types, and geographic footprint lack consistency. Business development professionals should treat this code as a potential data-quality flag rather than a procurement category worth targeting directly.