UNSPSC 95131605: Shipping container house

A mobile freight shipping structure converted into a commercial or residential unit.

UNSPSC 95131605 Shipping container house is a Commodity code that does not align with the state and local procurement activity recorded in recent solicitations under this classification. The opportunities posted show no purchasing of shipping container houses or modular container residential structures. Instead, the recent opportunities tagged to this code span prefabricated and modular buildings of varied types—metal pole barns, temporary modular workspace facilities, pre-engineered metal storage buildings, fixed recreational facilities, airport hangars, detention facility renovations, and fixed municipal structures—none of which match the code's stated commodity scope. The issuing bodies include cities (DeBary, Bradenton, Port Orange, Santa Cruz, Tucson, Thunderbolt, Sandy Springs, Cibolo), counties (Sarasota, Collier, Flagler, Indian River, Orange, Hillsborough, Marion, Lee, Bibb, Augusta-Richmond, Beaufort, Santa Clara, Pinellas, Volusia, Broward, Boulder, Pinal), state transportation and military agencies (Texas Department of Transportation, Texas Military Department, Commonwealth of Kentucky), Texas A&M, and regional transit and infrastructure authorities (Atlanta Beltline, Gainesville Community Reinvestment Area). No repeat buyers emerge at the code level; activity is scattered across functional areas (parks, public safety, utilities, senior centers, hospitals, airports, detention, water systems, transit amenities).

The geographic distribution spans Florida (most recent activity), Texas, California, Georgia, Arizona, Colorado, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina, with Florida jurisdictions—particularly small cities and counties—accounting for the highest concentration of recent posts. Two representative recent solicitations illustrate the mismatch: the City of DeBary's Rob Sullivan Park Maintenance Barn (IFB, bids due May 12, 2015) sought a 25' x 40' x 14' A-frame steel building with delivery and installation for $16,000; and the City of Bradenton's Construction Manager at Risk solicitation for a new Public Works & Utilities Complex projects $60 million in construction cost across four permanent buildings on a 28-acre site. Neither is a shipping container house. The code shows little relevant recent activity; the recent opportunities represent a broader category of prefabricated and permanent modular construction that state and local procurement offices are tagging to this commodity classification despite a material scope mismatch.