UNSPSC 93141717: Cultural heritage excavation services

Excavating cultural heritage and making a related report.

UNSPSC 93141717 Cultural heritage excavation services is a Commodity code that, based on recent state and local solicitations, does not align with the posted opportunities. The code's nominal scope—professional archaeological field work, testing, data recovery, and site documentation—appears in only one recent opportunity: the Washington County Water Conservancy District's RFP for cultural resource mitigation services across 17 prehistoric archaeological sites in Utah, due April 3, 2026. That procurement, however, represents an outlier among the recent postings tagged to this code. The remaining nine opportunities—library book returns equipment, jail library services, digital magazine hosting, periodical subscriptions, leased books programs, library material acquisitions, integrated library systems, library book relocation, and federal affairs subscriptions—fall entirely outside archaeology or heritage excavation work. These opportunities appear to have been misclassified or posted under the wrong UNSPSC designation.

The single archaeology-focused opportunity, the Washington County Water Conservancy District mitigation work, solicits vendors holding Secretary of the Interior professional qualifications and both state (PLPCO) and federal (BLM) permits for Utah archaeological work. Evaluation spans qualifications (30 points), knowledge and experience (30 points), management plan (20 points), and cost appropriateness (20 points), with vendors responsible for testing, data recovery, laboratory analysis, NAGPRA implementation, and public education materials across Virgin Branch Ancestral Puebloan and Southern Paiute sites. General liability insurance minimums are $3 million aggregate / $1 million per occurrence, and professional liability $3 million aggregate / $2 million per occurrence. The code shows no measurable activity outside this single Utah water district procurement and does not reflect a viable target for business development under its stated definition.