UNSPSC 41122200: Crucibles

UNSPSC 41122200 Crucibles is a Class code that captures laboratory consumables, reagents, instrument parts, and analytical equipment used by state and local agencies for environmental testing, public health surveillance, and materials analysis. State and local governments procure under this code for drinking water quality monitoring, wastewater pathogen surveillance, genomic sequencing, and chemical or microbial analysis. The issuing bodies span state health and environmental departments, transportation agencies, municipal water utilities, and city laboratories. The Texas Health and Human Services Commission and Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment appear as repeat buyers, with the latter conducting multiple sole-source procurements for specialized molecular biology and analytical reagents. Work being solicited includes standards and consumables for organic chemistry analysis (gas chromatography columns, septa, liners, detector components), laboratory supplies and chemicals for water treatment and laboratory services, synthetic viral assay controls, genomic sequencing reagents, microbiome concentration particles, wastewater surveillance testing platforms and supplies, lead testing kits, analytical instrument parts, and balance scales and sieve shakers for materials testing.

Recent activity concentrates in Texas and Colorado. The Texas Health and Human Services Commission posted an IFB on September 24, 2026 (due October 9, 2026) for standards, consumables, and instrument parts for drinking water analysis with historical spend between $50,000 and $75,000. The City of Arlington, Texas solicited an annual requirements contract for laboratory supplies and chemicals on August 19, 2026 (due September 17, 2026) for use by Laboratory Services, two water treatment plants, and Water Resources Services Division. The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment conducted five sole-source procurements between May 19 and May 22, 2026, including Qiagen wastewater surveillance testing reagents and service (estimated $3.14 million), Standard BioTools genomic sequencing systems and reagents (estimated $3.3 million), Ceres Nanosciences reagents (estimated $3.5 million), and Twist Bioscience synthetic viral assay controls (estimated $2.3 million). The Texas General Land Office issued an IFB on June 1, 2026 (closed April 10, 2026) for water sample collection and analysis services across three coastal counties. The Mississippi state government posted a sole-source notice on August 6, 2026 (due August 25, 2026) for 200 LeadSmart3 Standard Kits for lead testing. South Dakota posted a laboratory consumables, reagents, and chemicals solicitation on September 10, 2026 (due September 25, 2026) with no substantive details available.