UNSPSC 78142005: Ship brokerage services

Specialist intermediaries/negotiators (i.e. brokers) between marine service providers and charterers, or between buyers and sellers of vessels.

UNSPSC 78142005 Ship brokerage services is a Commodity code that state and local governments use to classify insurance brokerage, financial advisory, and real estate transaction services—a significant mismatch between the code's nominal scope (maritime shipping intermediation) and the actual procurement activity recorded under it. Recent solicitations across employee benefits consulting, medical plan brokerage, commercial real estate services, investment advisory for pension and OPEB trust funds, and arbitrage compliance services all carry this code tag, suggesting either systematic miscoding or a legacy classification issue where the code has functionally become a catch-all for professional advisory and brokerage services. The actual work being solicited includes benefits program design and administration, carrier negotiations, COBRA and compliance management, claims analysis, investment performance reporting, property marketing and transaction structuring, and tax-exempt bond arbitrage calculations. Issuing bodies include county human resources departments (White County, Georgia; Henry County, Georgia; Okaloosa County, Florida), city procurement offices (Sarasota, Florida; Milton, Florida; Tucson, Arizona; Dallas, Texas; St. Cloud, Florida), independent school districts (Schertz-Cibolo-Universal City ISD in Texas; SCUC ISD), a state university system (University System of Georgia), and special-purpose authorities (Love Field Airport Modernization Corporation). No single issuing body dominates; the activity is distributed across mid-sized county and municipal jurisdictions and school districts in the Southeast and Southwest.

Geographic concentration is strongest in Georgia, Florida, and Texas, where multiple municipalities and counties have posted benefits consulting and brokerage solicitations since late April 2026. Representative recent opportunities include White County, Georgia's RFQ for employee benefits broker services (due December 11, 2026, seeking experience with public sector clients and current Georgia insurance brokerage licenses), Henry County, Georgia's RFP 27-01 for employee benefit consulting and broker services (due August 11, 2026, weighted heavily toward experience and technical approach with pricing as only 5 of 100 evaluation points), City of Milton, Florida's RFQ 2025.08 for commercial real estate services (due November 19, 2025, covering property marketing, transaction structuring, and closing support), and Schertz-Cibolo-Universal City ISD's medical plan brokerage RFP (due May 13, 2026, requiring fixed annual fee proposals and three years' experience with K-12 school districts). Activity is steady but dispersed; there is no indication of a single major program or cooperative purchasing vehicle driving volume under this code.