UNSPSC 78141900: Transport container rental services

Services to lease or rent various types of transport containers to third parties, such as totes, storage baskets, and other cargo containers

UNSPSC 78141900 Transport container rental services is a Class code that encompasses the rental, lease, transport, and delivery of shipping containers—primarily 20-foot and 40-foot Conex containers, roll-off boxes, and specialized lift-capable transport equipment—to state and local government agencies for temporary storage, emergency operations, waste management, and operational support. State and local governments procure these services across school districts, county solid waste and transit operations, airport authorities, municipal departments, and special-purpose districts. Recent solicitations show container rental spanning disaster-response and flood-operations staging (California Department of Water Resources), training facility setup (Austin Fire Department), solid waste and recycling collection infrastructure (Hillsborough County, Marion County, Collier County transit shelters), and general operational asset storage.

Container rental activity concentrates in Texas, California, and Florida, with secondary activity in North Carolina, Georgia, and Arizona. Representative recent opportunities include the California Department of Water Resources' IFB for side-lifting and roll-off container transport services for flood-fight materials (bid due July 8, 2026), Hillsborough County's ITB 26-00247 for new single-trip shipping containers with office-container variants and an estimated value of $146,685 over two years (bid due May 15, 2026), and Collier County's ITB 25-8571 for transit shelter amenities and associated equipment including integrated shelter designs with solar components (bid due August 17, 2026). The California procurement emphasizes on-call availability during standard business hours and emergency weekends with specialized hydraulic sidelifter equipment; Hillsborough County requires cream-colored new containers delivered within 30 days with bridge fittings for lashing; and Collier County's federal-grant-funded procurement carries Davis-Bacon prevailing wage, Buy America steel-and-iron preference, and DBE compliance obligations. Several school district and county solicitations are tagged to the code but actually pursue general maintenance services or recycling-program support unrelated to container rental itself, signaling potential classification drift in state procurement systems.