NIGP 49575: Prepared Slides (Microscope)

NIGP 49575 Prepared Slides (Microscope), an Item code, covers microscope slides that state and local governments purchase as consumable laboratory supplies for diagnostic, research, and educational use in pathology labs, clinical facilities, and academic institutions. State and local buyers under this code include state health departments, county medical examiners' offices, university systems, community colleges, and school districts operating science programs. The code captures both blank slides and pre-prepared slides for histology, cytology, microbiology, and other microscopic analysis work.

The source provided contains no recent state or local contract opportunities under NIGP 49575, making it difficult to characterize current geographic activity, issuing-body concentration, or representative solicitation trends. Without posted RFPs, RFQs, IFBs, or ITBs to reference, the code appears inactive in the current market visibility window or represents low-volume, routine purchasing typically handled through blanket orders, standing agreements, or small buys below formal solicitation thresholds.