UNSPSC 81102101: Coastal engineering

UNSPSC 81102101 Coastal engineering is a Commodity code that covers professional engineering services for shoreline stabilization, beach restoration, erosion control, and related regulatory permitting and design work. State and local governments under this code solicit design and construction services for coastal protection projects, environmental compliance documentation, and specialized consulting on wave action, sediment management, and marine structure design. Recent solicitations show issuing bodies include county governments (Sarasota County) and, in the broader dataset, municipal and special-purpose authorities managing waterfront or flood-resilience infrastructure. The work involves obtaining state and federal regulatory approvals from departments of environmental protection and the Army Corps of Engineers, preparing environmental documentation, coordinating utility relocations and subsurface investigations, and designing protective structures such as breakwaters, groins, and revetments alongside beach fill placement.

Sarasota County issued the most directly relevant recent opportunity: a Request for Professional Services for the Casey Key Resiliency Project (Solicitation 262855CG, due August 26, 2026), soliciting coastal engineering services to obtain regulatory approvals and design a 4.5-mile beach restoration and erosion control project comprising 45 coastal structures (six breakwaters and 39 groins) and approximately 1,005,800 cubic yards of sand placement. The county requires proposers to be registered with the Florida Department of Business & Professional Regulation, hold at least one licensed Professional Engineer on staff, and maintain $1,000,000 professional liability and $1,000,000–$2,000,000 commercial general liability insurance. Preferred qualifications include bathymetric survey experience, coastal permitting expertise, work with Sovereign Submerged Lands, and prior participation in state or federally funded coastal restoration. The dataset shows limited additional activity under this specific code; most other recent opportunities in the source involve transportation design, stormwater and wastewater infrastructure, and building systems work that fall outside coastal engineering scope, indicating that this code sees narrow but recurring solicitation activity concentrated in coastal jurisdictions with active erosion-control or resilience programs.