UNSPSC 42272208: Home care ventilators

In this classification, this commodity indicates a product used as an appliance for artificial respiration in a home care scenario in a medical setting. US FDA regulates Home 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 42272208 Home care ventilators is a Commodity code that encompasses the purchase and maintenance of patient ventilation equipment by state and local health care, educational, and emergency response agencies. Recent state and local solicitations show actual procurement activity spanning new ventilator equipment acquisitions, authorized service and maintenance contracts, and replacement parts — though the recent opportunities block includes several unrelated solicitations (tent structures, AEDs, law enforcement equipment, career technical education) that do not reflect the code's actual scope. Of the opportunities tagged to this code, the most directly relevant are Hillsborough County's three-year maintenance and repair contract for 40 Vyaire Medical LTV 1200 ventilators and Georgia Northwestern Technical College's sole-source purchase of a Getinge Servo-u ventilator for respiratory care program training. The Hillsborough County contract, valued at $140,225 and issued as ITB 26-00275 with a June 12, 2026 response deadline, requires ISO 13485:2016 certification and AAMI-certified technicians (CABT, CBET, or CHTM); the Georgia Northwestern purchase is an eRFQ with an April 27, 2026 deadline for a single new unit with no substitutions on make or model permitted.

The recent procurement activity under this code shows scattered geographic distribution across Florida, Georgia, and California, with no clear concentration among issuing-body types — a county board of commissioners, a technical college, and school districts appear in the recent block. The code shows limited recent activity overall; the mismatch between the code's nominal scope (home care ventilators) and the non-ventilator opportunities posted under it suggests either inconsistent tagging in some jurisdictions or gaps in recent solicitation data. When ventilator procurement does appear — notably in Hillsborough County's maintenance RFP and Georgia Northwestern's equipment purchase — the work involves either authorized factory service for clinical-grade equipment or educational institution acquisitions for respiratory training programs, not consumer home-care devices. This distinction narrows the addressable market to service-authorized dealers and medical equipment distributors rather than consumer health-appliance suppliers.