UNSPSC 85911008: Individual psychotherapy, supportive

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a mental health intervention or procedure of individual psychotherapy, supportiveindividual psychotherapy, supportive. This intervention or procedure is listed in the World Health Organization's International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems or ICD-10 as code GZ56ZZZ

UNSPSC 85911008 Individual psychotherapy, supportive (Commodity) represents a narrow slice of state and local behavioral health procurement, where governments contract with licensed mental health professionals to deliver direct clinical counseling and stabilization services. Recent state and local opportunities under this code show scattered activity in school districts, municipal police and fire departments, county public safety agencies, and specialized health systems seeking contracted therapists, psychologists, and crisis stabilization staff—though the posted opportunities reflect an uneasy fit between the code's nominal scope and actual procurement breadth, which spans everything from school psychologist services to pre-employment fitness-for-duty evaluations to emergency residential crisis housing. The core work state and local buyers actually pursue under this code centers on short-term therapeutic engagement: individual counseling sessions for students with unmet mental health needs, psychological assessment and fitness-for-duty testing for public safety applicants and incumbent personnel, crisis residential stabilization (90–120 days), and preventative mental wellness programs for first responders. School districts dominate the recent activity, with Katy ISD (Texas), Clarke County School District (Georgia), Birdville ISD (Texas), and Madison Metropolitan School District (Wisconsin) all soliciting contracted Educational Diagnosticians, Licensed School Psychologists, and behavioral health therapists to supplement district capacity; several simultaneously tag their postings with special education and multi-service codes that better reflect the work's actual scope.

Geographic concentration is diffuse: Texas hosts multiple school district procurements (Katy, Birdville, Dulce), Georgia appears frequently (Clarke County, Chatham County, Griffin-Spalding County, Augusta-Richmond County), and Illinois dominates with repeated Medical Director postings from the Department of Human Services across multiple mental health centers and rehabilitation facilities. Florida, Arizona, California (Santa Clara, Solano, Trinity counties), and other states round out the tail. Recent representative solicitations include Clarke County School District's RFP 26-1027 for student mental and behavioral health services (proposals due October 27, 2026), Chatham County's request for pre-employment psychological evaluations for law enforcement and emergency communications applicants (proposals due October 29, 2026 with MBE/WBE participation weighted in evaluation), Katy ISD's RFP #2516YT for Educational Diagnosticians and Licensed School Psychologists (proposals due August 13, 2026), and Trinity County, California's RFP for behavioral health interim housing placement serving 50 beds for adults with serious mental illness (proposals due October 19, 2026). The Illinois Department of Human Services has issued multiple reissued and rebid solicitations for full-time and part-time Medical Directors across its mental health centers and rehabilitation facilities, with response dates clustering in August and September 2026. Activity levels are moderate; the code attracts recurring buyers but shows no volume spike, and a material portion of recent postings appear mislabeled—cooperative purchasing catalogs for special education supplies, canine behavior management, and service dog procurement have been tagged with this code, signaling either data quality issues or aggressive scope creep in how jurisdictions classify behavioral and psychological services.