UNSPSC 70111503: Tree trimming services

UNSPSC 70111503 Tree trimming services is a Commodity code for removal, pruning, and vegetation management work on trees and woody plants across state and local properties. State and local governments buy tree trimming and pruning services to maintain right-of-way clearance, remove hazardous limbs and dead trees, manage vegetation adjacent to power lines and utility infrastructure, preserve urban forests in parks and public spaces, and support facility grounds maintenance at water treatment plants, airports, and transportation corridors. The work typically requires ISA Certified Arborist credentials and California C-49 or equivalent contractor licenses; many solicitations mandate ISA Certified Tree Worker certifications or OSHA Line Clearance Tree Trimmer credentials. Issuing bodies include water agencies, county departments of transportation, municipal parks and recreation departments, electric utilities and cooperatives, school districts, and county facilities management. A mix of routine scheduled maintenance contracts and on-call emergency-response agreements structures the demand.

Sacramento County Water Agency and Sacramento County Department of Transportation posted two major solicitations in early October 2026—an RFP for comprehensive landscaping, irrigation, and vegetation management across water utility operational sites (proposals due October 7, 2026) and an RFB for landscape maintenance on county road right-of-ways (responses due October 2, 2026)—both requiring C-27 landscape contractor licenses and ISA Certified Arborists for tree pruning work. Additional recent activity spans California (Caltrans District 10 and 12 IFBs for tree trimming adjacent to energized power lines; San Diego County SB/DVBE-only IFPQ; City of Thousand Oaks median improvements RFB), the Southeast (City of Savannah local-vendor-only tree preservation bid; Fayette County Georgia roadside pruning RFQ; Dorchester County South Carolina waterway debris removal IFB), Florida (City of Milton ITB for tree removal and stump grinding; City of Ocala palm inoculation and canopy tree services ITB; City of Orlando RFP for arborist consulting with FAIN 24-CA-11132544-016 federal funding; Glades Electric Cooperative and Springville City Power line-clearance RFPs), and scattered municipal and county mowing and grounds maintenance contracts in Texas, Connecticut, Maryland, Georgia, and North Carolina. The code shows sustained activity across utilities, municipalities, counties, school districts, and special-purpose districts nationwide, with particular concentration in California and the Southeast during the third quarter of 2026.