NIGP 19336: Diagnostic Reagents and Supplies (for Automated Chemistry)

NIGP 19336 Diagnostic Reagents And Supplies (For Automated Chemistry), an Item code, covers laboratory reagents and consumables used by state and local health departments, correctional facilities, and public health laboratories for automated diagnostic testing—including drug screening, microbial analysis, water quality testing, and wastewater surveillance. Recent solicitations show purchasing offices acquiring drug-testing kits for abuse analyzers, urinalysis and pathogen-detection reagents, culture media and quality-control materials for food and water safety testing, next-generation sequencing consumables, solid-phase extraction disks, chemical standards, and genome-sequencing kits. The mix of issuing bodies includes state health departments (Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Mississippi State Department of Health, Utah Department of Corrections), county governments (Gwinnett County, Georgia), a city government (Philadelphia), and academic health systems (University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio). Texas HHS Commission, procuring on behalf of the Department of State Health Services, appears across multiple recent IFBs for water-testing reagents, culture media, respiratory pathogen kits, gas chromatography consumables, and extraction disks.

Activity is geographically distributed across Texas, Utah, Mississippi, Georgia, and Pennsylvania based on recent postings. Representative opportunities include the State of Utah Division of Purchasing's RFP KL27104 for urinalysis laboratory equipment (automated drug-testing analyzers, reagents, and maintenance services across two correctional facilities, mandatory site visit October 15, 2026, proposals due October 22, 2026); Texas HHSC IFB HHS0017881 for Biomerieux-compatible laboratory supplies including VIDAS QC test kits and bacterial strain kits for food, water, dairy, and shellfish testing (proposals due August 26, 2026); Gwinnett County's RFQ BL144-26 for drug-testing supplies compatible with a drugs of abuse analyzer on annual contract (proposals due October 14, 2026); and the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio's RFP 745-26-P19 for a biotech research, clinical diagnostics, and equipment catalog with Jaggaer punchout integration and manufacturer discounts (proposals due June 4, 2026). Mississippi State Department of Health has also issued sole-source procurements for Idexx water-testing reagents ($338,861.98 estimated cost), Illumina genome-sequencing kits ($393,667.98), and Clear Labs sequencing reagents ($226,072.00).