Why UNSPSC Codes & Deep Product Data Will Make or Break ITES-4H and SEWP VI — and How Virtual Dojo Fixes It

If you’re one of the hundreds of contractors lining up to compete on ITES-4H or SEWP VI, you already know the uncomfortable truth:

It’s not enough to have the products. You need the data.

And not just any data! Deep, structured, compliance-aligned product intelligence:

·      UNSPSC Codes

·      TAA status

·      EPEAT ranking

·      Energy Star certification

·      Country of origin

·      Other product metadata OEMs and distributors rarely include

Collecting this manually is a nightmare.

That’s where Virtual Dojo changes everything.

The Coming Storm: ITES-4H and SEWP VI

ITES-4H

The Army CHESS vehicle for enterprise IT hardware across:

- Servers

- Storage

- Networking

- End-user devices

- Peripherals

Key notes: - NAICS 334111 is required at the delivery-order level (Army CHESS / ACC-RI). TAA compliance is mandatory. Eco-labels and security-alignment matter more than ever.

SEWP VI

NASA’s flagship IT GWAC with a $60B+ ceiling and a significantly larger pool of anticipated awardees.

What makes SEWP VI different?

 - Explicit requirement to use UNSPSC codes for product classification.

 - Large volume of line items.

 - Complex product categories across hardware, software, cloud, services, and accessories.

From industry Q&A documents:

“The requirement for UNSPSCs for at least 12,000 products is unduly burdensome … OEMs and distributors do not typically provide UNSPSCs … making this a tedious, largely manual effort.”

Sound familiar? It should. Every reseller knows the pain of hunting down these codes when vendors never include.

The Real Pain Point: Data Hell

Here’s what slows contractors down more than pricing or products:

1. Vendors don’t give you UNSPSC codes

Distributors rarely provide UNSPSC codes in quote exports. OEMs? Even worse.

For SEWP VI, the solicitation references the full in-scope UNSPSC list but doesn’t change the fact that you’re stuck mapping codes manually unless you automate it.

2. Compliance labeling is scattered across 20 different sources

You’re expected to provide:

- TAA Compliance

- EPEAT Level

- Energy Star

- Environmental / sustainability attributes

- Country of Origin

- Security alignment

Most vendor quotes don’t list any of this.

3. Quotes arrive in every format known to humankind

·      PDFs

·      Excel files

·      System-generated text exports

·      Cut-and-paste order forms

Some with missing fields, mismatched SKUs, or slight OEM name variations. Good luck normalizing that by hand.

4. Scale: You may need to process thousands of SKUs

Especially for SEWP VI, where the catalog onboarding requirements are massive.

5. More awardees = more competition

ITES-4H is large. SEWP VI will be significantly larger.

Which means the companies that automate data mapping are the companies that win and let your sales team get back to selling and not managing data.

Enter Virtual Dojo: Your Data-Enrichment Engine for Federal IT Vehicles

Virtual Dojo is built for this exact moment.

Here’s how it saves you:

✔ Automatic UNSPSC Matching

Even when:

- The quote doesn’t list the code

- The distributor has inaccurate mappings

- The OEM provides nothing at all

Virtual Dojo parses each line item and uses AI + our proprietary catalog references to automatically apply the correct UNSPSC.

✔ Auto-Add Compliance Metadata

Your quotes get enriched with:

- TAA (Yes/No)

- EPEAT Level

- Energy Star status

- Domestic/International sourcing

- Environmental attributes

- Additional certifications when available.

All without manual lookup.

✔ Normalize Quotes from All Major Distributors

Virtual Dojo parses and standardizes:

- TD SYNNEX

- Ingram Micro

- Carahsoft

- D&H

- Arrow

- Synnex Public Sector

- Direct vendor quotes

If the data exists somewhere in the supply chain, our API can ingest it.

✔ Quote Output Ready for ITES-4H or SEWP VI Requirements

No rework. No manual spreadsheets. Just clean, mapped, enriched line items ready for submission.

✔ Scale to Thousands of Products

Whether it’s 20 lines or 20,000, Quotely turns hours of manual compliance research into a few seconds of API automation.

Why This Matters Now

·      SEWP VI explicitly requires UNSPSC codes.

·      ITES-4H requires TAA and eco-certification accuracy.

·      Both vehicles expect complete, structured product data.

·      The number of awardees is large, meaning speed and accuracy become competitive advantages.

Contractors that automate their product-data workflows will:

- Quote faster

- Submit compliant catalogs

- Reduce errors

- Respond to RFQs at scale

- Outperform competitors waiting on manual data-gathering

This isn’t efficiency. This is survival in a high-velocity contracting environment.

Final Thoughts

Federal IT contracting is becoming more data-driven every year. The contractors that can produce clean, accurate, compliance-rich product data on demand are the ones that will dominate ITES-4H, SEWP VI, and every major hardware/solutions vehicle that follows.

Virtual Dojo gives you:

- Speed

- Accuracy

- Compliance intelligence

- Automation

- A competitive edge

In a world where vendors don’t provide the data you need… Virtual Dojo does.