UNSPSC 91111501: Uniform rental

UNSPSC 91111501 Uniform rental is a Commodity code that encompasses weekly rental, laundering, maintenance, and replacement of work uniforms, protective clothing, operational supplies, and related linens for state and local government personnel across facilities operations, law enforcement, fire services, and correctional institutions. State and local procurement offices solicit under this code primarily to avoid the capital expense and ongoing management burden of uniform ownership, instead contracting out the full service — picking up soiled items, laundering and repair, and delivering clean stock on a regular cycle. The issuing bodies are concentrated among state departments (California Highway Patrol, California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Texas Facilities Commission, State of Maine Department of Transportation, State of Rhode Island Department of Corrections) and smaller numbers of county governments, municipalities, special districts, and higher-education institutions. California Highway Patrol dominates the recent activity block, posting at least twenty separate IFBs for protective clothing and operational supplies rental across its regional area offices and commercial vehicle enforcement facilities since May 2026. The code also captures outright uniform purchase contracts, as evidenced by the Texas Facilities Commission RFP and the Tucson Police Department and Fire Department annual requirements contract for formal uniforms, ballistic shields, and body armor, though the core transactional activity remains rental-based services.

Recent activity concentrates heavily in California, where the California Highway Patrol alone has issued IFBs for individual area offices from June through October 2026 (Oakhurst, Chowchilla River, Sonora, Capistrano, Westminster, Los Banos, Visalia, Santa Cruz, Rancho Cucamonga, Ventura, Needles, and others), each typically structured as a three-year contract with response windows of two to four weeks and awards to the lowest responsive and responsible bidder after adjusting for small-business, DVBE, and nonprofit veteran service agency preferences. The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection issued overlapping IFBs for shop towel, coverall, and mat rental services at multiple Northern California locations in August and September 2026. Outside California, activity includes the Texas Facilities Commission RFP 0007240 for uniform purchase and rental at four Austin locations (proposals due July 7, 2026), the Rhode Island Department of Corrections RFQ 27007044 for garrison uniform dress belts (November 5, 2026 due date), the City of New Haven ITB 2026-ITB-338 for uniform rental and cleaning for approximately 115 public works employees (May 20, 2026), the Town of Killingly Connecticut sealed proposal process for uniform rental at its water pollution control facility (July 27, 2026), the Tucson Police and Fire Departments' annual requirements contract (May 26, 2026 deadline), the Clark County School District RFP for Facilities Management uniform rental (July 2, 2026), the University of Connecticut proposal solicitation for uniform rental and cleaning (July 2, 2026), Berrien County Georgia RFQ for public safety uniforms (July 31, 2026), the Maine Department of Transportation RFQ for Class 2 Arc Flash Rated clothing rental (May 27, 2026 deadline), and the Texas Facilities Commission blanket-purchase framework agreement (November 19, 2026). Standard contract terms run three years with optional renewal periods; pricing is submitted on a per-item weekly rental basis, replacement cost basis, and initial setup fees; and set-asides or preferences appear in nearly every California solicitation (small-business, micro-business, DVBE incentive, and nonprofit veteran service agency preferences capped at 5–10 percent or $50,000–$100,000 combined). The Texas Facilities Commission vehicle is structured as a cooperative purchasing frame agreement available nationwide through TIPS USA with an estimated $10 million annual volume and a 2 percent administrative fee. Recent public announcements name no incumbent vendors.