UNSPSC 12141704: Antimony Sb

UNSPSC 12141704 Antimony Sb, a Commodity code, sees limited direct procurement activity in state and local government. The recent opportunities tagged under this code overwhelmingly reflect laboratory consumables, reagents, and chemicals for forensic DNA analysis, drug screening, disease surveillance, and water treatment—not antimony metal or its ore derivatives. The Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts IFB 304T27175A11 (due October 20, 2026) is the most substantive recent solicitation, seeking genetic analyzer components, buffer containers, polymers, sequencing kits, and drug-screening reagents from specified vendors including Life Technologies, Promega, Qiagen, Immunalysis, and ANDE Corporation for the Texas Department of Public Safety and Parks and Wildlife. Additional recent opportunities include the District of Columbia Department of Forensic Sciences RFP for Next-Generation Sequencing consumables and reagents (due September 25, 2026), the State of California RFB for Shiga Toxin QuikChek diagnostic testing kits (due October 7, 2026), and the City of Arlington, Texas annual requirements contract for laboratory supplies and chemicals across Laboratory Services and water treatment plants (bids due September 17, 2026). Issuing bodies are predominantly state health or forensic agencies, municipal water utilities, and special-purpose districts; Texas appears as a repeat buyer across multiple jurisdictions.

Geographic concentration spans Texas, California, and the District of Columbia in the most recent cycle, with ancillary activity in Connecticut, Georgia, and higher-education procurement through Texas A&M University. The code's taxonomy label suggests primary-metal procurement, but the actual state and local activity coded here consists of laboratory reagents, diagnostic kits, and treatment chemicals bearing no chemical relationship to antimony. This represents a classification mismatch rather than substantive market activity in the antimony commodity itself. Firms evaluating pursuit under this code should verify with the issuing body whether antimony or antimony compounds are actually being sought, as the recent solicitations show no demand for antimony metal, alloys, or oxides.