UNSPSC 41121603: Low retention pipette tips

UNSPSC 41121603 Low retention pipette tips, a Commodity code, covers consumable laboratory supplies used in testing and analytical operations across municipal crime labs, environmental testing facilities, and public health laboratories. State and local governments buy these tips as part of broader forensic, water-quality, and clinical laboratory operations rather than as standalone procurement lines; the recent solicitations show pipette tips appearing within larger requests for crime lab supplies, environmental laboratory testing services, and lab information management systems.

The issuing bodies are primarily municipal police departments, city public utilities and water/wastewater divisions, and county public health agencies. The City of Albuquerque Police Department's Scientific Evidence Division issued RFB 2026-762-POL-DV on April 14, 2026 (due May 13, 2026) for 124 line items of crime lab supplies including evidence packaging, fingerprint collection equipment, and chemical reagents, with annual usage ranging from single units to 216,000 units. The City of Palm Bay, Florida issued ITB 19-ITB-26 on April 13, 2026 (due March 17, 2026) for laboratory testing services across three wastewater treatment facilities, two water treatment facilities, and groundwater monitoring programs, encompassing 188 line items with estimated annual quantities ranging from single analyses to 15,000 tests. The County of Santa Clara issued an RFI on April 7, 2026 (due April 22, 2026) for a lab information management system replacement to support its Public Health Lab operations. Recent activity shows spread across New Mexico, Florida, and California, with municipal procurement offices handling the acquisitions. The pipette tips themselves do not appear as explicit line items in the available documentation, suggesting they are typically bundled within broader laboratory supplies or testing-services contracts rather than procured as discrete commodity lines by state and local governments.