UNSPSC 80111600: Temporary personnel services

UNSPSC 80111600 Temporary personnel services, a Class code, spans the on-demand staffing services that state and local governments buy to fill short-term, seasonal, project-based, and emergency operational gaps across administrative, clerical, technical, skilled trades, and labor-intensive roles. Recent solicitations show state agencies, cities, counties, school districts, and special-purpose public entities soliciting temporary staffing on routine basis—Texas Tech University, the City of Phoenix, the Florida Department of Transportation, Collin County Community College District, and regional transit authorities all posted competitive bids and RFPs in the past ninety days. The work spans administrative and HR support (City Colleges of Chicago, City of San Antonio), facilities and maintenance labor (City of Richardson, Florida DOT at Brooksville), event and election staffing (Cuyahoga County Board of Elections, University System of Georgia), dining and hospitality services (North Carolina State University, Integral Care conference catering), specialized technical roles (City of Tucson IT staffing, Orange County administrative positions), and field services (Urban Flood Safety & Water Quality District in Portland, Texas Tech maintenance crews). Geographic activity concentrates in Texas (Texas Tech, San Antonio, Collin County, Richardson, Tucson cooperative component, Teacher Retirement System of Texas), Florida (Orange County, FDOT, Cuyahoga County serves Ohio), Colorado (state-wide RFPs through SPCO), and California (Inland Empire Health Plan, City of Milpitas, Ventura County). A handful of opportunities involve cooperative purchasing vehicles—the Texas SMART BUY program, NASPO ValuePoint, and Axia Cooperative—which aggregate state and local demand.

Representative recent solicitations include Texas Tech University's RFP 2026-1191 for maintenance and repair staff augmentation across nineteen skilled trades (electrical, HVAC, plumbing, masonry, welding, etc.) with proposals due July 31, 2026, structured as a four-year contract through the VetHUB program with automatic renewals and firm pricing for the first year; the City of Phoenix's RFQU for housing services property management and master leasing for homeless populations due August 7, 2026, establishing a qualified vendor list over five years; the State of Colorado's RFP-SPCO-26-BS01 for statewide temporary staffing across multiple job classifications and geographic regions with proposals due May 7, 2026 and estimated usage of 429,000 hours annually; Collin County Community College District's ITB for three-year temporary personnel services (primarily grounds maintenance) with an estimated budget of $2.8 million and current spend of $2.13 million; and the Florida Department of Transportation District Seven's competitive sealed ITB for maintenance staffing at the Brooksville Operations Center (1,920 estimated hours over one year) due May 19, 2026. Evaluation criteria typically weight experience and past performance heavily (30–40 points), service delivery and operational capability (20–40 points), and pricing as cost-reasonableness rather than price alone (20–35 points). Set-asides and preferences appear selectively—HUB requirements in Texas, DBE-neutral participation in Phoenix, SBE/EBO discounts in Tampa and Atlanta, and MBE/WBE goals in Chicago—but most solicitations do not impose mandatory diversity thresholds. Cooperative vehicles and state-level RFPs target aggregate volumes and multi-year terms; individual municipal and county opportunities tend toward one to three-year initial periods with renewal options and smaller annual spends ($600,000–$2.8 million in named examples). Activity is steady across all four quarters and all regions sampled.