UNSPSC 41122101: Petri plates or dishes

UNSPSC 41122101 Petri plates or dishes (Commodity) represents laboratory consumables and reagents procured by state and local health departments, environmental agencies, and municipalities for water quality analysis, disease surveillance, and diagnostic testing. State and local governments purchase petri plates and related laboratory supplies under this code as components of broader consumables contracts spanning glassware, reactive media, sterilized growth substrates, and associated analytical materials. Recent solicitations show that buying bodies treat petri plates as one line item within multi-line consumables RFQs and IFBs, rather than as standalone procurement targets, often bundling them with chromatography columns, protective equipment, detector components, and reagent kits.

Activity centers on state health and environmental laboratories in Texas and Colorado. The Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) issued IFB HHS0018026 on September 24, 2026, for standards, consumables, and instrument parts used by the Organic Chemistry Group to analyze drinking water samples, with 19 line items across columns, septa, liners, gloves, and wipes, due October 9, 2026; the historical fiscal year 2026 spend was $50,000 to $75,000, with delivery to the Department of State Health Services Lab in Austin. The City of Arlington, Texas released solicitation 270018 on August 19, 2026, for an annual requirements contract supplying laboratory supplies and chemicals to the city's Laboratory Services and two water treatment plants, due September 17, 2026 through Euna Procurement. Colorado's Department of Public Health and Environment has posted multiple sole-source procurements for reagents and service agreements (Qiagen, Standard BioTools, Ceres Nanosciences, and Twist Bioscience), though those records focus on specialized instruments and reagents rather than basic consumables like petri plates. A South Dakota RFB posted September 10, 2026, titled "Laboratory Consumables, Reagents & Chemicals" shows activity in that state as well, though substantive scope details were not available. The code shows modest but steady activity among state environmental and health departments and municipal water utilities, with no single jurisdiction dominating the landscape.