UNSPSC 83111804: Television broadcasting station management

UNSPSC 83111804 Television broadcasting station management (Commodity) describes broadcast engineering, production infrastructure, and station operations work that state and local governments buy to support public and educational television channels, government-access cable programming, and election communication campaigns. The scope spans equipment procurement and facility management for transmission infrastructure, broadcast automation and playout systems, production support services, and content production and distribution for public-facing campaigns. Issuing bodies include city and county government agencies operating public television channels (such as the City of Phoenix), state education departments and public broadcasting authorities, regional education service centers, special-purpose districts, and universities with broadcast or communications operations.

Recent activity clusters in the Southwest (Arizona, California, New Mexico) and mid-Atlantic (New Jersey, Delaware area), with concurrent solicitations in Florida, Georgia, and Washington State. The City of Phoenix issued an IFB for part-time television engineering services supporting PHXTV operations—a five-year contract commencing May 2026 with hourly rate pricing across normal, after-hours, and emergency categories and DBE/SBE participation requirements. Hillsborough County, Florida, conducted a sole-source procurement for the Cablecast VIO2 OMNI broadcast automation system with June 2026 proposal deadline, integrating cable channel automation, video-on-demand publishing, streaming, and government meeting archiving into a single platform. The New Jersey Department of the Treasury, acting for the New Jersey Public Broadcasting Authority, solicited transmission facility management services across thirteen television facilities in three geographic regions under a three-year IFB with a mandatory June 2, 2026, site visit and prevailing wage compliance requirements. The City of Milpitas issued RFP 26-155 for on-call communications and marketing support services including video production and media planning for community events and public safety campaigns, with a five-year anticipated term beginning October 2026 and proposals due July 28, 2026. The Washington State Office of the Secretary of State procured voter information multimedia production and broadcast distribution for the 2026 General Election under RFP 26-03 with a not-to-exceed value of $160,000, targeting rural and historically marginalized communities with content in English and Spanish, responses due June 1, 2026, and contract execution targeted for late June with campaign media placement running through Election Day.