UNSPSC 41141804: Cholesterol

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

UNSPSC 41141804 Cholesterol is a Commodity code that does not reflect the actual scope of recent state and local procurement activity tagged under it. The posted opportunities show laboratory consumables, reagents, and diagnostic supplies for public health testing — specifically respiratory pathogen detection kits, culture media for foodborne illness and water testing, solid-phase extraction disks for drinking-water analysis, mycobacterial reagents, and whole-genome sequencing kits for SARS-CoV-2 and pathogen surveillance. These acquisitions are mission-critical inputs to state health laboratories and university research facilities, not cholesterol-testing products. The issuing bodies span state health departments (Texas HHSC and Department of State Health Services, Mississippi State Department of Health), a university research center (University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio), a state environmental agency (California), and a city procurement office (City of Philadelphia). Texas agencies dominate recent activity, posting multiple IFBs between February and June 2026 for sequencing consumables, culture media, extraction columns, and analytical standards used in drinking-water and wastewater surveillance programs.

Recent opportunities reveal a concentrated pattern of Texas procurement. The Texas HHSC has issued at least five separate IFBs since February 2026, including IFB HHS0017272 for respiratory pathogen detection kits (due May 19, 2026), IFB HHS0017132 for culture media in food and water testing (due June 2, 2026), and IFB HHS0017287 for Atlantic ReadyDisk HC-C18 solid-phase extraction disks for EPA drinking-water testing (due May 13, 2026). The Mississippi State Department of Health posted two sole-source procurements in late April for Clear Labs and Illumina whole-genome sequencing kits totaling approximately $619,740, with objection deadlines of May 14, 2026. The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio issued RFP 745-26-P19 (due June 4, 2026) for a comprehensive biotech research and clinical diagnostics catalog with 8,768 line items ordered in the prior year, requiring HUB Subcontracting Plan submission. The City of Philadelphia posted a micro-purchase RFQ for Clean Thru Extraction Columns (due May 30, 2026, not to exceed $43,000), and the State of California solicited MyCodeDR reagents (RFB IS-26200845, due April 29, 2026) and Cerilliant certified spiking solutions (RFB 26200758-1, due April 13, 2026). Firms pursuing these opportunities should treat the "Cholesterol" code designation as a data-quality issue and screen opportunities by actual scope — laboratory diagnostics, public health surveillance, and water-testing consumables dominate actual procurement under this code tag.