UNSPSC 42142919: Thermal soft-lens sterilizers

In this classification, this commodity indicates a product that sterilizes and cleanses soft and contact lenses. Most nations, for tariff and trade purposes, schedule these products under HS 841920.

UNSPSC 42142919 Thermal soft-lens sterilizers, a Commodity code, sees sparse recent state and local procurement activity. The single identified opportunity—Sourcewell RFP #061626 posted May 12, 2026, with response due June 16, 2026—targets law enforcement equipment broadly and does not clearly align with the code's nominal scope of thermal sterilization devices for soft contact lenses. The RFP seeks to establish a cooperative contracting vehicle for law enforcement equipment available to thousands of governmental agencies, school districts, and public entities across the United States and Canada, but the solicitation materials do not specify thermal sterilizers as a line item or distinguish them from the broader law enforcement equipment category.

Sourcewell, a Minnesota local government cooperative, issued the RFP on behalf of participating entities including Franklin, Grant, Grays Harbor, Chelan, and Yakima counties in Washington state, along with jurisdictions nationwide. The cooperative structure allows selected vendors to serve multiple public sector organizations under a single framework agreement, but the mismatch between the code's thermal soft-lens sterilizer focus and the law enforcement equipment scope suggests this code does not currently see targeted state and local procurement activity aligned with its product definition. Vendors should verify whether thermal sterilizers fall within the law enforcement equipment category Sourcewell intends to source or whether this code assignment represents a data-entry error in the opportunity record.