UNSPSC 41122109: Petri pads

UNSPSC 41122109 Petri pads, a Commodity code, covers laboratory consumables and supplies used in environmental monitoring, public health surveillance, and forensic analysis operations across state and local health departments, environmental agencies, and public safety laboratories. State and local procurement under this code encompasses culture media, reagent kits, sampling supplies, and related laboratory materials required for water quality testing, wastewater surveillance, pathogen detection, and forensic evidence analysis. Issuing bodies include state departments of public health and environment, county health offices, municipal utilities, and city laboratories. The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment appears as a repeat buyer, procuring reagents and supplies for genomic surveillance, wastewater testing, and newborn screening programs; the Texas General Land Office and Texas Department of Transportation also solicit laboratory supplies and testing services. Geographic activity concentrates in Colorado, Texas, California, and Florida, with recent opportunities spanning municipal water and wastewater utilities, state environmental laboratories, and specialized genomic surveillance units.

Recent representative opportunities include the Texas General Land Office's IFB 7643-LP (posted June 1, 2026, due April 10, 2026) for water sample collection and analysis services across Brazoria, Matagorda, and Harris counties under the Texas Beach Watch Program, requiring vendors to conduct 1,421 annual samples using EPA-approved membrane filtration and quantitative PCR methods at cost-per-sample pricing; the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment's sole-source procurements for Qiagen wastewater surveillance testing reagents and service (posted May 22, 2026, due May 28, 2026, $3.14 million estimated value) and Ceres Nanosciences microbiome capture particles (posted May 19, 2026, due May 22, 2026, $3.5 million modified value) for wastewater genomic surveillance; the City of Palm Bay's ITB 19-ITB-26 (due March 13, 2026) for laboratory testing services across water, wastewater, and industrial pretreatment programs, with 188 line items, unit prices ranging from $0 to $425 per analysis, and three responsive bids totaling $80,872 to $107,946; and the State of California's RFB 26200641-1 (posted February 19, 2026, due March 5, 2026) for consumables in trace evidence testing including comparison microscope slides, evidence packaging, and chemical reagents for forensic analysis.