UNSPSC 77101505: Environmental monitoring

UNSPSC 77101505 Environmental monitoring is a Commodity code that encompasses the monitoring, sampling, and analysis of environmental conditions across water bodies, contaminated sites, air quality, biological communities, and specialized surveillance systems. State and local governments procure environmental monitoring services to comply with regulatory requirements such as Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) standards, brownfields assessment protocols, wastewater-based epidemiology tracking, contaminated site institutional control verification, and real-time wildlife-collision avoidance data collection. Recent solicitations under this code show work ranging from fish tissue and bird egg sampling for selenium and organochlorine compliance to SCADA system support at Superfund sites, statewide institutional-control surveillance across 400 to 1,000 contaminated sites, and environmental assessment of private properties. Issuing bodies include state departments (California Department of Toxic Substances Control, Texas Water Development Board, Washington Department of Natural Resources), county and municipal agencies (Orange County, Tuolumne County, Henry County Georgia), transit authorities (Orange County Transportation Authority for solar feasibility work with embedded environmental analysis), and special districts. The geographic spread of recent activity spans California, Texas, Florida, Georgia, Colorado, Connecticut, Washington, and Arizona, with particular concentration in California environmental remediation and water quality monitoring work.

Representative recent opportunities illustrate the breadth of monitoring work: the California Department of Toxic Substances Control issued RFP 2526-09 in May 2026 for statewide site monitoring services covering 400 to 1,000 sites with institutional controls, requiring monthly rates per site ranging from $5 to $400 for seven monitoring subtasks and a $400 per-site activation fee, with a three-year term and a contract ceiling of $655,000; the County of Orange in March 2026 issued RFP 0802997708RE for environmental monitoring and biological sampling across the Newport Bay Watershed to support TMDL compliance for selenium and organochlorine compounds, including fish tissue sampling, bird egg collection, and habitat surveys evaluated on technical merit and cost on a 900-point scale; and the Florida Department of Children and Families issued ITB 2526-074 in March 2026 for wastewater surveillance services including coordination of municipal sample collection, laboratory LC-MS/MS analysis, and data dashboard creation, with a contract term extending through June 2028. DVBE participation requirements at the three to five percent level appear frequently in recent solicitations, and local vendor preferences and small-business set-asides are common in county-level awards.