UNSPSC 80111604: Temporary technician staffing needs

UNSPSC 80111604 Temporary technician staffing needs, a Commodity code, covers the recruitment, screening, and on-demand placement of skilled and semi-skilled temporary workers across diverse occupational categories—administrative, clerical, professional, technical, trade-specific, maintenance, and specialized roles such as substitute teachers, election workers, and facility technicians. State and local governments use this code to access flexible workforce augmentation without expanding permanent payroll, typically for project-based work, seasonal peaks, unexpected absences, and operational gaps. Recent solicitations show demand spanning traditional administrative and clerical placements alongside specialized technical staffing (IT professionals, engineers, maintenance technicians), event and election support, substitute educator services, and facility operations personnel.

Issuing bodies are highly diverse and include state purchasing offices (Colorado, Texas, Nevada, New Mexico through NASPO ValuePoint), cities (Tucson, San Antonio, Temple, Tampa, Richardson, Atlanta, Milpitas, Orange County Florida), counties (Ventura, Orange California, Collier Florida, Harris Texas, Cuyahoga Ohio), school districts (Hillsborough County, Ocean Springs, City Colleges of Chicago, Collin County), transit and special-purpose authorities (Urban Flood Safety & Water Quality District in Portland), universities (Texas Tech, Texas State, University of Texas M.D. Anderson), and community health entities (Inland Empire Health Plan). Repeat solicitation activity is concentrated among cities and counties actively building multi-vendor staffing rosters and cooperative purchasing vehicles serving multiple jurisdictions. The Texas Department of Agriculture, Illinois Department of Human Services, and various Florida municipalities appear multiple times in recent activity. Geographic spread spans Texas, Florida, California, Colorado, Arizona, Illinois, Ohio, Oregon, Georgia, Mississippi, and multiple states through NASPO ValuePoint and state-level cooperative purchasing agreements. Representative recent opportunities include the Texas Department of Agriculture's pesticide disposal event staffing (RFP 5510000952, due August 17, 2026), Texas Tech University's maintenance and repair staff augmentation across 19 trade categories (RFP 2026-1191, due July 31, 2026), the City of Phoenix housing services staffing (RFQU260341, due August 7, 2026), the State of Colorado's statewide temporary staffing (RFP-SPCO-26-BS01, due May 7, 2026), the County of Ventura's multi-category temporary staffing (RFP 6251, due June 10, 2026), and Hillsborough County Public Schools' substitute teacher placement services (RFP #26058-RFP-DST, proposals due March 23, 2026). Pricing structures typically require fixed hourly or daily rates, percentage markups applied to base wages, or tiered service levels; evaluation commonly weights experience and past performance at 25–40 percent, qualifications and service delivery capability at 20–50 percent, and cost at 10–40 percent. Many jurisdictions explicitly require compliance with prevailing wage, E-Verify, workers' compensation, and comprehensive liability insurance (commonly $1–2 million general liability). Set-asides and preferences vary—HUB (Historically Underutilized Business) participation requirements appear in Texas solicitations, DBE-Neutral programs in Arizona, MBE and WBE goals in Illinois and California, and Service Disabled Veteran preferences in Florida. Activity is sustained and diversified across administrative, technical, trades, education, and event support functions, indicating broad and ongoing reliance on flexible staffing across state and local government.