UNSPSC 41141802: Bile acids

In this classification, this entry connotes a substrate made of Bile acids that is used in clinical chemistry testing.

UNSPSC 41141802 Bile acids is a Commodity code that does not align with the recent state and local solicitation activity attributed to it. The source contains no procurement opportunities for bile acids—a biochemical reagent category used in pharmaceutical, diagnostic, and research applications. Instead, the thirteen recent opportunities span genomic sequencing consumables, culture media, solid phase extraction disks, laboratory standards and instrument parts, forensic and analytical reagent solutions, and equipment procurement for public health microbiology and wastewater surveillance programs. These procurements reflect actual laboratory and diagnostic testing infrastructure, not bile acid supply chains, suggesting a classification mismatch between the code label and the work being solicited under it.

The issuing bodies driving activity under this code are predominantly state health departments and their laboratory divisions—the Texas Health and Human Services Commission on behalf of the Department of State Health Services, the Mississippi State Department of Health, and the State of California. One municipal purchase appears (the City of Philadelphia requesting extraction columns), and one research institution is represented (University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio). Texas dominates recent activity, with eight of thirteen posted opportunities originating from HHSC or DSHS procurements for respiratory surveillance kits, culture media, extraction disks, chemical standards, and sequencing equipment, spanning May through June 2026. Mississippi State Department of Health posted two sole-source procurements in late April 2026 for Clear Labs and Illumina whole genome sequencing reagents totaling $619,739.98 combined. California issued two sealed-bid solicitations in April 2026 for mycobacterial reagents and Cerilliant certified spiking solutions. Geographic concentration is heavy in Texas, with secondary activity in Mississippi and California; the absence of procurement activity under this code in most jurisdictions signals either low demand or sustained misclassification of laboratory reagent and equipment procurements at the commodity level.