UNSPSC 42272205: Intensive care ventilators

In this classification, this commodity indicates a product used as an appliance for artificial respiration used in the intensive care unit in a medical setting. US FDA regulates Intensive care ventilators under 21 CFR 868.5895 and under FDA product code CBK. Most nations, for tariff and trade purposes, schedule these products under HS 901890.

UNSPSC 42272205 Intensive care ventilators is a Commodity code that represents a narrow product category, yet the recent state and local opportunities in the dataset show minimal direct alignment with the code's nominal scope. Among the eight most recent opportunities tagged to this code, only three involve ventilators in any form: Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners issued an ITB for maintenance and repair services on 40 Vyaire Medical LTV 1200 ventilators over three years (ITB 26-00275, due June 12, 2026, estimated contract value $140,225); Georgia Northwestern Technical College posted an eRFQ for a single Getinge Servo-u Ventilator for its Respiratory Care Program (eRFQ 82900CVT0000083, due April 27, 2026); and the City of Tampa Fire Rescue Department solicited Autovent 3000 medical equipment components including a ventilation circuit as one line item within a larger procurement (ITB 25-P-00175, due April 21, 2025, estimated contract value $70,000). The remaining five opportunities in the dataset—a tension fabric tent structure, AED equipment, law enforcement equipment, career technical education resources, and major incident standby services—fall outside the code's scope and suggest significant categorization drift in how some jurisdictions tag their procurements.

Issuing bodies with ventilator-related activity span county governments, technical colleges, and municipal fire departments, but the sample is too small to characterize a pattern. Geographic activity appears distributed across Florida (Hillsborough County, City of Tampa), Georgia (Georgia Northwestern Technical College), and no clear regional concentration emerges. The Hillsborough County opportunity represents the largest and most substantial recent solicitation—a three-year maintenance contract for an established fleet requiring ISO 13485:2016 certification and AAMI-certified technicians (CABT, CBET, or CHTM)—whereas the Georgia Northwestern and Tampa opportunities are either single-unit educational purchases or component-level procurements. The code shows limited recent activity directly relevant to intensive care ventilator supply or procurement; business developers should weight the Hillsborough County maintenance contract as the only substantial live opportunity in the near term while noting that broader medical equipment and first-aid supply solicitations (such as Tampa's medical supplies ITB) may occasionally include ventilator-adjacent components without being tagged to this code.