UNSPSC 41106217: Specialty plates for bacteria

UNSPSC 41106217 Specialty plates for bacteria, a Commodity code, does not align with recent state and local procurement activity. The source contains 40 state and local contract opportunities posted between June 2026 and October 2026, and none involve specialty plates for bacteria; the single opportunity potentially related to bacterial testing—Escambia County's August 2026 IDEXX supplies procurement (solicitation SSNRMALM2526017)—concerns reagents, vessels, and testing kits for fecal-indicating-bacteria analysis in water quality, not bacterial culture plates. Mississippi State University dominates the recent opportunities block with 25 sole-source or restricted procurements, including laboratory equipment (microscopes, X-ray diffractometers, indentation systems, spectrometers), research instruments (cold spray systems, induction furnaces, acoustic receivers), and specialized machinery (stitching cells, agricultural sprayers, drift towers). Other issuers include the University of Wisconsin-Madison (six equipment RFBs and RFPs), Texas A&M University System and Texas State University (equipment bids), the University of Mississippi (one gas cluster ion beam system), Midwestern State University (one microfluidizer processor), Illinois State Police and Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (consumables and equipment), Harris County and Escambia County (health and laboratory supplies), the State of Mississippi (livestock equipment), the State of Oregon (X-ray and laboratory equipment), the City of Philadelphia (hydrogen generator supplies), and the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (coliform testing reagents).

The issuing bodies are primarily higher-education institutions (state universities and research universities in Mississippi, Texas, Wisconsin, and Illinois), followed by state environmental and health departments, counties, and cities. Activity concentrates in Mississippi (dominated by MSU sole-source research and teaching equipment), Wisconsin (university research instrumentation), Texas (university laboratory and instrumentation systems), and Illinois (state agency environmental and forensic laboratory equipment). The recent procurement mix emphasizes research-grade laboratory instruments, analytical equipment, and specialized consumables for water quality, materials characterization, forensics, environmental monitoring, and agricultural research—a profile fundamentally different from the code's nominal scope. The code shows no material recent activity in state and local procurement markets.