UNSPSC 72151307: Ship painting service

The application of paint to ships owned by others

UNSPSC 72151307 Ship painting service is a Commodity code that captures state and local government procurement for protective coatings and painting services applied to structural and architectural surfaces — steel, concrete, masonry, and specialized substrates — in both maintenance and capital-project contexts. Recent solicitations show the code active across water infrastructure, facility renovation, and utility-asset preservation, where state and local buyers contract for surface preparation, coating application, and related specialty painting work at fixed or hourly rates.

State and local issuing bodies soliciting under this code include county departments (Athens-Clarke County, Georgia; Solano County, California; Marion County, Florida; Henry County, Georgia; Collier County, Florida), municipal public works and utilities departments (City of Huntsville, Texas; City of Ocala, Florida; City of Rome, Georgia; Eastern Municipal Water District, California), state health and human services agencies (Texas Health and Human Services Commission; Washington Department of Social & Health Services), and county transit or utility authorities. The Unified Government of Athens-Clarke County (Georgia) and Solano County (California) have posted multiple recent opportunities under this commodity. Representative recent work includes the Athens-Clarke County Public Utilities Department solicitation (Bid #27017, RFQ posted October 15, 2026, due November 18, 2026) for miscellaneous coatings repair at the J.G. Beacham Water Treatment Plant — coating systems across fifteen buildings and structures including exposed steel, lead abatement, immersion-service accessories, sludge collectors, and basin standpipes, with an estimated value of $400,000 to $800,000; the City of Huntsville, Texas solicitation (Bid NO. 27-05, ITB posted October 8, 2026, due October 27, 2026) for interior and exterior protective coating system replacement on a half-million-gallon welded steel water storage tank using near-white blast cleaning and NSF-approved three-coat systems with Tnemec products; and the Solano County Department of General Services solicitation (RFP posted October 6, 2026, due October 19, 2026) for asset-protection painting and coating services on County properties as part of a FEMA-funded flood-mitigation initiative, with surface preparation per SSPC standards and coating-material suppliers specified as TNEMEC Company, Inc., Xypex Chemical Corporation, or Chemprobe Technologies, Inc.

Activity clusters in California (Santa Clara County, Riverside County, San Jose), Florida (Volusia, Seminole, Marion, Collier Counties; Ocala, Altamonte Springs, Huntsville), Georgia (Athens-Clarke, Henry, Gwinnett Counties), Texas (Huntsville), and Washington state. Recent opportunities span water infrastructure asset preservation, healthcare facility seismic and operational upgrades, community college and public-utility facility maintenance, and municipal municipal public works. The code shows steady mid-market activity, with individual project values ranging from $90,000 to $800,000, and multi-vendor annual-services contracts in the $96,000 to $675,000 annual-spend range.