UNSPSC 41122111: Tissue culture chambered slide

A multiple chambered glass or plastic microscope slide used for viewing cell cultures, which possesess inert hydrophobic well borders defining the cell culture area and that can be used for different stains, treatments, or fixation processes without affecting the adjacent chambers

UNSPSC 41122111 Tissue culture chambered slide is a Commodity code encompassing laboratory consumables and reagents used by state and local health departments, environmental agencies, and water quality monitoring programs. State and local governments procure these items as part of broader laboratory supply contracts supporting drinking water analysis, wastewater surveillance, microbial testing, and genomic sequencing operations. The issuing bodies span state health and environmental departments, municipal water utilities, and state transportation agencies. The Texas Health and Human Services Commission and Department of State Health Services together procure standards, consumables, and instrument parts for organic chemistry analysis of drinking water samples; the City of Arlington, Texas solicits laboratory supplies and chemicals for its laboratory services and water treatment plants; and the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment procures specialized reagents and service agreements for wastewater surveillance and genomic surveillance programs. The Mississippi state government issued a sole-source notice for lead testing kits, and the Texas General Land Office conducts sample collection and analysis under the Beach Watch Program.

Recent activity concentrates in Texas and Colorado. The Texas Health and Human Services Commission posted IFB HHS0018026 on September 24, 2026, with bids due October 9, 2026, for 19 line items of standards, consumables, and instrument parts valued at $50,000 to $75,000 for fiscal year 2026; delivery goes to the Department of State Health Services laboratory in Austin. The City of Arlington posted RFQ 270018 on August 19, 2026, with bids due September 17, 2026, for an annual requirements contract supplying laboratory supplies and chemicals to the city's laboratory services and water treatment plants, requiring electronic submission through Euna Procurement. Colorado's sole-source procurements in May 2026 for Qiagen wastewater surveillance reagents and service (estimated $3.14 million), Standard BioTools reagents and X9 High-Throughput Genomics Systems (estimated $3.3 million combined for equipment and reagents), Ceres Nanosciences reagents (modified estimate $3.5 million), and Twist Bioscience synthetic viral controls (estimated $2.3 million) demonstrate substantial spending on specialized laboratory reagents and service agreements. South Dakota posted an RFB for laboratory consumables, reagents, and chemicals (RFBIS27200163) on September 10, 2026, with a due date of September 25, 2026, though substantive scope details are not available. The California and Texas Department of Transportation procurements shown in the data involve laboratory equipment and accessories rather than tissue culture slides specifically, indicating some code-assignment variance in state and local systems.