UNSPSC 78120000: Material packing and handling

UNSPSC 78120000 Material packing and handling is a Family code encompassing the labor, equipment, and logistics state and local governments buy to organize, store, transport, and document goods and materials across facilities and operations. Recent state and local solicitations under this code reveal work spanning professional organizing and inventory services for housing authorities, leachate pumping and transportation for county waste management, laboratory courier services for environmental testing, and on-call cleanup labor for municipal environmental services. The issuing bodies are predominantly county departments, municipal environmental and waste services divisions, and housing authorities. The mix includes Hillsborough County (multiple leachate and courier services), the City of Tucson (environmental cleanup), the Housing Authority of Alameda (organizing and packing), and the City of Meriden (various maintenance and material handling). Work is actively solicited across Florida (Hillsborough County, Escambia County, Palm Bay), Arizona (Tucson), Connecticut (Meriden), and California (Alameda, San Mateo counties).

Recent representative opportunities include the City of Tucson Environmental Services Department requesting proposals under RFP 270172 for rapid-response illegal dumping cleanup, homeless encampment refuse removal, and roadside litter abatement with two-business-day response windows and hourly labor pricing; Hillsborough County issuing ITB 2700003 for daily and on-call laboratory courier services transporting wastewater samples across five treatment plants to a central lab starting at 7:00 a.m. with a $150,061.13 estimated three-year value; and the Housing Authority of Alameda soliciting bids under ITB 2026-ITB-AS-004 for professional organizing, packing, unpacking, inventory documentation, and hazardous material identification across 1,288 units, structured on a not-to-exceed basis with annual renewals through fiscal 2030. Geographic activity concentrates in Florida and the Southwest, with secondary activity in the Upper Midwest and Pacific Northwest, reflecting county-scale waste management and municipal facility maintenance demand.