UNSPSC 41103517: Biological safety cabinet

An enclosed workspace which utilizes HEPA filtering for both intake and exhaust ventilation, which may or may not function through laminar flow, which is divided into biological safety classes and which is used in the laboratory for safely working with materials contaminated with, or which could be potentially contaminated with, pathogens

UNSPSC 41103517 Biological safety cabinet is a Commodity code that, based on recent state and local solicitations, encompasses laboratory and specialized containment equipment procurement rather than the code name alone suggests. The recent opportunities tagged under this code show significant scope mismatch — the opportunities posted include millwork packages for prison construction, poultry isolators, classroom furniture, law enforcement equipment, and perchloric acid fume hood decontamination services. None of these solicitations represent biological safety cabinets or equipment aligned with the nominal code scope. The mismatch indicates that this code is being applied inconsistently across issuing bodies, or the tagged opportunities have been miscoded at the source.

Recent activity spans state departments, universities, regional purchasing cooperatives, and county governments across Georgia, Texas, Illinois, and Washington, though the geographic and issuing-body mix reflects the diversity of miscoded opportunities rather than coherent procurement under the biological safety cabinet commodity. The Texas A&M University ITB for a poultry isolator (TAMUITB265077, due August 11, 2026) is the closest substantive match to laboratory equipment, but remains outside biological safety cabinet scope. The Region 7 Purchasing Cooperative classroom furniture RFP (CLSF2628, estimated expenditure $21,568,516.00 across two years) and the Georgia State Financing and Investment Commission millwork RFQ for the new state prison facility (PE40900RFQC2027000000252, due November 4, 2026) represent the largest dollar volumes but are unrelated to the code. This code shows no coherent recent activity in biological safety cabinet procurement at the state and local level based on the available solicitation records.