UNSPSC 70131602: Lime spreading services

UNSPSC 70131602 Lime spreading services is a Commodity code naming a discrete agricultural maintenance service that state and local governments rarely buy under this specific designation — recent solicitations show instead a wide array of landscape, grounds, and site-maintenance work being tagged to this code despite nominal misalignment with the code name. The few opportunities plainly labeled "fertilizer plus application" come from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, which has posted multiple IFBs (IW255710, IW255708, IW255702, IW254773, IW254777, IW254820, and IW251087) all due around late June through mid-July 2026, though detailed scope and budget information is absent from available summaries. Beyond those TDCJ procurements, state and local buyers have tagged landscaping maintenance, grounds care, tree planting and removal, park restoration, site preparation, erosion control, irrigation repair, and hardscape installation to this code — work that spans routine mowing cycles to major capital projects. The issuing-body mix is broad: county governments (Collier, Fayette, Broward, Seminole, Lee, Marion, Dorchester), cities (Atlanta, Fort Worth, Fitchburg, Norwalk, Santa Cruz, Santa Fe, Chamblee, Albany, Jackson, Palm Beach, Sandy Springs, Thousand Oaks, Cooper City, Amarillo, Missouri City), transit and airport authorities (North Perry Airport, Santa Fe Regional Airport, Page Field), state departments (Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Nevada Office of the Military), and school and university systems (Tempe Elementary School District, University of Texas at Dallas, University of Wisconsin-Parkside). Repeat buyers include Texas Department of Criminal Justice on fertilizer application, the City of Fitchburg on median maintenance, Seminole County on landscape services, and the City of Milton on comprehensive facilities and parks landscaping.

Geographic activity concentrates in the Southeast (Georgia, Florida, South Carolina), Texas, and the Midwest (Wisconsin, Michigan), with sporadic recent opportunities in the Southwest (Arizona, Nevada) and Pacific Northwest (Oregon). Representative recent procurements include the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's Fertilizer plus Application IFB-IW255710 (response due July 30, 2026), the City of Fort Worth's Citywide Unimproved Alleyway Grounds Maintenance RFP (response due August 6, 2026, with a 30% small business participation goal), Walton County, Florida's Multi-Use Path and Rights-of-Way Maintenance ITB 26-20 (response due August 6, 2026 with mandatory pre-bid July 22), the City of Milton, Georgia's Parks Maintenance Services RFP 26-PR03 (response due July 30, 2026, one-year term with four renewals beginning October 2026), and Collier County, Florida's Big Corkscrew Island Regional Park Phase 2B construction project with an anticipated budget of $31 million (sealed bids due May 11, 2026, with substantial completion required within 700 calendar days). The code sees steady activity but lacks concentrated spending — opportunities range from $125,000 annual municipal contracts to multi-million-dollar regional park and street construction projects, with most mid-range landscaping and grounds maintenance contracts running $200,000 to $500,000 over initial terms.