UNSPSC 80141637: Conference fees

Conference Fee means the fee we charge for your attendance at a conference for Chain Facilities and their franchisees when and if held.

UNSPSC 80141637 Conference fees is a Commodity code that captures state and local government registration and attendance costs for professional conferences, educational events, and industry networking forums. Recent opportunities show this code tags both vendor participation fees (such as booth or exhibit registration at government procurement reverse trade shows) and government agency attendance at professional development events. The actual procurement activity diverges sharply from the code's nominal scope — of the ten identifiable opportunities posted in the past four months, only two are conference-related; the remaining eight cover chemical-resistant parts for water systems, on-call trade labor, machine shop services, conveyor equipment, food service supplies, building inspection services, emergency water bottles, and traffic signal installation. The mismatch signals that state and local procurement offices may be mistagging non-conference opportunities under this code, or the code itself captures a much narrower slice of actual transactional activity than recent posting volume suggests.

Where conference activity does appear, issuing bodies include county governments and municipal utilities across the South and Southwest. Clay County, Florida hosted its 10th Annual Clay County Procurement Conference on November 12, 2026, featuring a reverse trade show and small-business contracting panel with $10 per-person registration including breakfast. Marion County, Florida held its 2nd Annual Reverse Trade Show on June 17, 2026, as a vendor networking event connecting procurement professionals from Marion County and surrounding jurisdictions with potential suppliers. Neither event generated competitive contract opportunities; both functioned as business development and relationship-building platforms. The Tampa Bay Area Chapter of NIGP also hosted a 2026 Reverse Trade Show in June 2026 targeting suppliers exhibiting to public procurement decision-makers across Florida. Geographic activity clusters in Florida (Clay, Marion, Hillsborough counties) with secondary activity in Arizona and Connecticut. The code shows light, episodic activity — conference registration is a transactional, low-dollar spend item that does not drive sustained procurement interest.