UNSPSC 41102607: Animal feeding needles

UNSPSC 41102607 Animal feeding needles, a Commodity code, shows minimal recent state and local procurement activity aligned with its nominal scope. The code's title suggests narrow laboratory or animal-husbandry consumables, but the recent opportunities tagged to it reflect much broader science-curriculum and equipment provisioning. State and local jurisdictions soliciting under this code are primarily school districts and educational institutions, with the Cobb County School District in Georgia leading recent activity through a large science-supplies procurement serving 105 school sites. Beyond the school-district focus, the tagged opportunities include a higher-education research purchase (University of Southern Mississippi's fish-monitoring system), a cooperative purchasing vehicle under Sourcewell for law enforcement equipment, and a Texas independent school district's CTE and advanced academics framework. The code shows limited activity and poor category alignment — the school-district science-supplies bids are for preserved specimens, micromedia, live materials, chemicals, and general equipment rather than feeding needles specifically.

Geographically, recent opportunities cluster in the Southeast (Georgia, Mississippi) and Texas, with a cooperative purchasing listing that spans multiple Washington and other states as participating entities. The Cobb County School District's IFB B26128, posted May 15, 2026 with a June 16, 2026 response deadline, is the most concrete and relevant example — it solicits science specimens, chemicals, supplies, and equipment for K-12 instruction with an estimated annual expenditure of $175,000 and requires online ordering capability, quarterly reporting, and ten-business-day delivery to multiple school sites across the district. Klein Independent School District in Texas issued an RFP for Career Technical Education and Advanced Academics instructional resources with a June 5, 2026 deadline, accepting proposals across 17 CTE program areas and advanced academics categories. The code's sparse and misaligned recent activity suggests low volume and poor fit between the nominal commodity and current state and local buying patterns under this classification.