UNSPSC 41122113: Capillary pipette or tube puller

A mechanism designed to pull thin wall glass capillaries to generate tubes, pipettes or needles suitable for cell culture growth, seeding, in vivo microscopic imaging and/or microinjection studies

UNSPSC 41122113 Capillary pipette or tube puller is a Commodity code representing specialized laboratory equipment used by state and local health, environmental, and transportation agencies for analytical workflows. The recent opportunities tagged to this code show little alignment with the code's nominal scope—the solicitations instead focus on laboratory consumables, reagents, analytical instruments, and sample collection services rather than capillary pipette or tube puller equipment itself. The Texas Health and Human Services Commission's September 2026 solicitation for standards, consumables, and instrument parts for drinking water analysis (HHS0018026), the City of Arlington's annual requirements contract for laboratory supplies and chemicals, and multiple Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment sole-source procurements for reagents and service agreements (Qiagen, Standard BioTools, Ceres Nanosciences, and Twist Bioscience) represent the code's recent activity but address downstream analytical inputs rather than the pipette or tube puller equipment category itself. The issuing bodies include state health and environmental departments, city water utilities, and state transportation agencies, suggesting the code is used as a catch-all for laboratory equipment and consumable procurement even when specific product scope diverges from the code name.

Activity clusters in Texas and Colorado, with single recent opportunities also appearing in California, Mississippi, and South Dakota. The Texas Health and Human Services Commission solicitation (HHS0018026) closes October 9, 2026, with historical spending of $50,000 to $75,000 annually for analytical supplies including GC columns, septa, UHPLC columns, and detector components; a second Texas procurement from the City of Arlington (due September 17, 2026) seeks an annual requirements contract for laboratory supplies and chemicals. Colorado's Genomic Surveillance Program and Laboratory Services Division dominate the recent posting activity with multiple sole-source reagent and service procurements totaling $2.3 million to $3.5 million per award (Qiagen, Standard BioTools, Ceres Nanosciences, and Twist Bioscience), all posted in May 2026. The California solicitation for Agilent vacuum manifolds and trap assemblies (RFBIS26200889, due May 11, 2026) and the Texas Department of Transportation's laboratory equipment procurement for Corpus Christi (IFB 601320000070474) indicate broader state-level demand, though the code shows minimal actual capillary pipette or tube puller demand. The mismatch between code name and actual solicitation scope suggests this code does not accurately reflect current state and local procurement in this equipment family.