UNSPSC 42291607: Surgical curettes or loops or curette sets

In this classification, this commodity indicates a product used as a curette, loop, or curette set during a surgical procedure in a medical setting. US FDA regulates surgical curettes or loops or curette sets under 21 CFR 872.4565 and under FDA product code EKE. Most nations, for tariff and trade purposes, schedule these products under HS 901920.

UNSPSC 42291607 Surgical curettes or loops or curette sets, a Commodity code, sees limited direct procurement activity under this specific nomenclature in recent state and local solicitations. Instead, state and local buyers are acquiring surgical instruments and related medical supplies through broader cooperative-purchasing vehicles and integrated health system procurements that bundle surgical instruments within larger medical-supplies master agreements. The work being solicited includes surgical-grade instrumentation for orthopedic procedures, outpatient clinical settings, and acute-care hospital environments, typically bundled with complementary supplies rather than as standalone curette-specific line items. Issuing bodies include state cooperative-purchasing consortia (NASPO ValuePoint, Sourcewell), county health systems (San Mateo Medical Center), and state capital-project procurement offices. Most recent solicitations frame surgical instruments as part of larger medical-supplies or physical health products contracts rather than discrete surgical-instrument categories.

Recent activity centers on cooperative-purchasing master agreements with multistate reach. NASPO ValuePoint's RFP 1433 for Medical Supplies, administered by South Dakota with proposals due November 9, 2026, and Sourcewell's Physical Health Products and Related Services RFP, due October 20, 2026, represent the primary vehicles through which state and local entities are establishing pricing and access for surgical supplies including instrumentation. San Mateo Medical Center's July 2026 RFP for Orthopedic Hardware Removal and Extraction System Services illustrates how county health systems source surgical instrumentation on an as-needed basis for specific clinical procedures, structured as three-year service contracts with technical support and retrieval obligations. Activity is concentrated in the West and Upper Midwest, with representation from California, Minnesota, and Washington state jurisdictions. The code shows no dedicated single-agency RFPs or IFBs for surgical curettes in the recent-opportunity block; instead, procurement flows through cooperative vehicles and health system bundle procurements that encompass this commodity within broader medical-supplies or surgical-services agreements.