UNSPSC 86101504: Agriculture vocational training services

UNSPSC 86101504 Agriculture vocational training services, Commodity, is being bought by state and local education agencies and workforce development bodies primarily as speech-language pathology staffing, driver education licensing, and occupational training for individuals transitioning to work or rehabilitation—a sharp divergence from the code's nominal agricultural scope. Hillsborough County Public Schools in Florida (RFP 24127ARFPDST, due March 23, 2026) solicited speech-language pathologists and pathology assistants on an as-needed basis, budgeted at approximately $11.6 million annually with federal IDEA funding of up to $3 million per year; the district required Florida licensure, 48-hour response times to service requests, and E-Verify compliance, with evaluation weighted 35% on scope, 25% on qualifications, and 40% on cost. Wicomico County Public Schools in Maryland (ITB 92441271, due November 9, 2026) sought a state-approved driver education provider to deliver in-person classroom and behind-the-wheel instruction at high school sites meeting Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration standards. Across the opportunities block, the code captures workforce development and reentry services—the City of Little Rock's Bridge to Work Program (RFP 247783, due October 29, 2026) paired employment support for people experiencing homelessness with public litter removal; Texas Workforce Commission open enrollments for Project SEARCH (due February 9, 2027), employment services (due February 8, 2027), and orientation-and-mobility training (due November 24, 2026) focused on transition-to-work outcomes for individuals with disabilities; and the Illinois Department of Human Services emergency vocational rehabilitation training contract with the University of Illinois closed March 29, 2026 at a cost of $223,031.27 over nine months. The tag mismatches the actual work being bought—agriculture vocational training does not appear in any of the recent solicitations.

Geographic activity centers on Texas, Florida, Maryland, Illinois, and Wisconsin, reflecting the distributed state workforce development and K–12 special education procurement landscape. Texas dominates the open-enrollment activity, with the Texas Workforce Commission issuing rolling-award opportunities across all 254 counties for Project SEARCH, employment services, diabetes self-management education, assistive technology services, orientation and mobility, and independent living services—each with fixed outcome-based fee schedules and no volume guarantees. School districts in Texas (Katy ISD, Collin County Community College) and Florida (Hillsborough, Pinellas) represent the largest block of recent opportunities by count and dollar value. The code shows little relevant activity under its stated agricultural training rubric; procurement teams evaluating this code for lead generation should treat it as an edge-code that surfaces workforce and special-education staffing under a taxonomic mislabel rather than a productive signal of agricultural training demand.