UNSPSC 82151505: Ceramics makers services

UNSPSC 82151505 Ceramics makers services is a Commodity code that encompasses design, fabrication, and installation of custom ceramic, sculptural, and decorative art objects for museums, cultural institutions, civic spaces, and educational facilities. State and local governments procuring under this code are acquiring exhibit fabrication, public art installations, and specialized artistic works that integrate ceramics or ceramic-adjacent materials (bronze, stone, acrylic, composite media) into permanent installations designed for durability and public interaction. The issuing bodies span state agencies, county governments, cities, and public universities, with state cultural institutions and municipal public works departments driving recent activity. Scope ranges from interactive museum exhibits with integrated electronics and sensory components to standalone public art commissions, outdoor wayfinding installations, and civic-center art pieces. Procurement vehicles include RFPs for design-build services, RFQs for artist qualification pools, and IFQs for completed-work quotes. Vendors must typically demonstrate prior museum or cultural-institution project experience, often with references from permanent exhibits designed for high-volume public use, and meet insurance, bonding, and security-clearance requirements that scale with project complexity and budget.

Geographic activity spans Illinois, Florida, Georgia, Texas, California, and Oregon, with recent solicitations concentrated in the Southeast and Southwest. Representative opportunities include the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum (Illinois) fabrication and installation of the Citizen City Children's exhibit—a 1,000-square-foot interactive installation with audio-visual components, RFID-tagged props, and touchscreen systems, RFP due August 17, 2026, with a mandatory BEP set-aside requiring 23 percent minority-, women-, or disability-owned participation; Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners (Florida) design, fabrication, delivery, and installation of modern interactive displays for the Veterans Memorial Park Education and Cultural Center, estimated at $800,000, RFP due August 6, 2026; Texas Tech University System's bronze-sculpture commission for Edward E. Whitacre Jr. College of Engineering, approximately 7 feet in height, RFQ due July 10, 2026; and the City of Madison's multi-phase public art procurement for the Madison LakeWay SkyLine project, a 1.7-mile shoreline development with individual project budgets ranging from $100,000 to $750,000, RFQ due April 16, 2026. The code shows steady activity across municipal, county, and state-agency customers, with project budgets typically ranging from $30,000 for mural work to $800,000 for comprehensive interactive installations.