UNSPSC 78131502: Grain elevator services

UNSPSC 78131502 Grain elevator services is a Commodity code that represents storage, handling, and logistics services for bulk commodities and food items — but recent state and local solicitations show the code is being applied to a much broader range of warehousing, storage, and cold-storage services that bear little connection to traditional grain elevators. State and local buyers are using this code to tag climate-controlled and non-climate-controlled warehouse contracts for medical supplies, pharmaceuticals, USDA donated foods, and dry goods; cold-storage emergency services; and food-storage facility operations. The issuing bodies span state departments of health, human services, and agriculture; county governments; and municipalities. Texas Health and Human Services Commission and the Illinois Department of Human Services appear as repeat buyers; New Jersey Department of Agriculture, Cook County Illinois, and the City of Madison also solicited under this code in the recent period.

Recent activity clusters in Texas, Illinois, New Jersey, and Arizona. Representative opportunities include the Texas Health and Human Services Commission IFB HHS0016767v3 (reissued multiple times through October 2026) for 10,000 square feet of climate-controlled and 25,000 square feet of non-climate-controlled warehouse storage and transportation services in San Antonio, with a mandatory 26% VetHUB subcontracting goal and historical spend of $3.797 million over five years; the New Jersey Department of Agriculture RFP 26DPP01313 (due October 29, 2026) for USDA donated-food storage across two zones serving 700 school districts managing over 584,000 cases valued at approximately $20 million annually; and the Illinois Department of Human Services IFB B-52252 (due May 20, 2026) for off-site dry-goods warehousing at the Ann M. Kiley Center in Waukegan with 14% BEP and 3% VBP diversity goals. The code's recent use signals that state and local procurement offices are applying a grain-elevator taxonomy code to modern third-party logistics and storage contracts, suggesting either legacy classification behavior or inventory-management scope overlap — but work being solicited is warehousing and transportation, not grain handling.