PSC 5960: ELECTRON TUBES AND ASSOCIATED HARDWARE — Federal Procurement Code

59 - ELECTRICAL/ELECTRONIC EQPT COMPNTS L1: Electronic & Communication Equipment

Description

Electron Tubes and Associated Hardware

Includes

Rectifying Tubes; Photoelectric Tubes; Electron Vibrator Tubes.

Excludes

Transistors; Tube Sockets; X-ray Tubes; Semiconductor Devices and Associated Hardware.

Suggested adjacent classifications

PSC codes describe what the government buys. These related classifications help connect procurement codes to industries, commodities, and trade workflows.

Related NAICS industries

3325

Hardware Manufacturing

33251

Hardware Manufacturing

332510

Hardware Manufacturing

4237

Hardware, and Plumbing and Heating Equipment and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers

Related UNSPSC categories

Bare printed circuit boards

23271413

Electron beam welding EBW machine

Official data

Feature	Description
Official name	Product Service Codes (PSC)
Maintained by	U.S. federal acquisition community / GSA PSC Manual
Purpose	Classifies what the government buys: products and services
Primary use	Federal procurement reporting, contract categorization, spend analysis
Code type	Mixed/unspecified

When do you need PSC 5960?

1 Use PSC 5960 when identifying the product or service category on a U.S. federal contract.

2 Use it when filtering opportunities or spending data in SAM.gov, FPDS, or USASpending.

3 Use it when comparing a procurement category against related NAICS industries or UNSPSC commodities.

4 Use it when a contracting workflow needs the purchased item classification rather than the supplier industry code.