UNSPSC 42131716: Surgical shoe covers

In this classification, this commodity indicates a product that is used as shoe covers by medical staff in a surgical setting. Most nations, for tariff and trade purposes, schedule these products under HS 640219.

UNSPSC 42131716 Surgical shoe covers is a Commodity code that represents a narrow product line within occupational and medical safety equipment. State and local government procurement activity under this code is sparse; the recent opportunities block contains no direct solicitations for surgical shoe covers themselves. Instead, the three most recent opportunities tagged to this code encompass broader medical supplies and law enforcement equipment — a cooperative purchasing master agreement for unspecified medical-supplies categories (NASPO ValuePoint), occupational medical surveillance services for ferry workers (Washington State Department of Transportation), and law enforcement equipment procurement through a multi-state cooperative (Sourcewell). The mismatch between the code's nominal scope and the actual work being solicited suggests this code sees minimal dedicated activity in state and local markets, or that tagging precision is inconsistent across jurisdictions.

Without recent opportunities directly soliciting surgical shoe covers, the geographic spread and issuing-body profile cannot be reliably characterized from this source. The three opportunities shown involve South Dakota (as administering state for NASPO ValuePoint), Washington State (Department of Transportation), and Minnesota (Sourcewell as the administering cooperative), but none targets the product category named in the code. A vendor pursuing work under UNSPSC 42131716 should expect this code to be part of broader medical or safety-equipment supply agreements rather than standalone procurements and should monitor cooperative purchasing vehicles and state health-department medical-supplies consolidations for relevant activity.