UNSPSC 41116170: Immunohematology quality control or calibrator or standard

Quality controls or calibrators or standards for immunohematology testing procedures including blood grouping, reverse grouping, phenotyping, cross matching, antibody screening, antibody identification, direct AHG tests, and single antigen screens.

UNSPSC 41116170 Immunohematology quality control or calibrator or standard (Commodity) covers diagnostic test kits, reagents, controls, and calibrators that state and local public health agencies, county corrections departments, and municipalities procure to support disease screening and laboratory operations. Recent solicitations show state and local governments buying HIV rapid test kits, HIV and Syphilis reagents with calibrators and controls for automated analyzer systems, drugs-of-abuse test supplies, and sexually transmitted infection test kits and collection devices. The Illinois Department of Public Health and Collin County, Texas appear repeatedly as active buyers; other issuing bodies include the City of Austin, Gwinnett County Georgia, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, and county health services departments. Work centers on maintaining uninterrupted testing capacity for public health surveillance, disease control, and offender monitoring programs, often under CLIA certification and HIPAA compliance requirements.

Illinois Department of Public Health procured Abbott HIV/Syphilis reagents with calibrators and controls (emergency sole-source to Abbott Laboratories, total cost $38,079.50, May 2026); the City of Austin issued an IFB for Abbott Determine HIV 1/2 rapid test kits and controls (approximately 375 test kits and 79 control kits annually, responses due July 17, 2026 and a rebid with responses due September 3, 2026); Collin County Community Supervision and Corrections Department released an RFP for offender drug testing services including immunoassay screening and confirmatory testing (approximately 25,031 tests annually, $600,000 estimated value, responses due July 23, 2026); and Illinois Department of Public Health issued a change order to increase volumes on a Hologic NG/NT testing and kit contract (increasing annual volume to 25,000 tests and 30,000 collection kits, revised total cost $900,000 over five years, responses due October 13, 2026). Recent activity concentrates in Illinois, Texas, and Georgia.