UNSPSC 42291627: Surgical burr

In this classification, this commodity indicates a product that is either an accessory or consumable associated with surgical burr. Most nations, for tariff and trade purposes, schedule these products under HS 901819.

UNSPSC 42291627 Surgical burr is a Commodity code that represents a narrow product line within surgical instrumentation, yet the recent state and local opportunities tagged under it show significant scope drift and misalignment with the code's nominal definition. Of the four recent solicitations, only one—San Mateo Medical Center's orthopedic hardware removal and extraction system services RFP—bears any direct connection to surgical instrumentation; the other three (State of California furniture for an outpatient building, Sourcewell's law enforcement equipment cooperative, and Klein ISD's career technical education resources) are plainly unrelated to surgical burrs or surgical instruments. The San Mateo opportunity does reference orthopedic implant removal and hardware extraction but does not specifically procure surgical burrs as a product. This pattern suggests the code is being used inconsistently by state and local procurement offices, or that a data-tagging error has assigned unrelated solicitations to this commodity code. The code shows little relevant recent activity aligned with its stated product scope.

San Mateo County Medical Center posted the sole orthopedic-relevant opportunity (Solicitation 666002526252, due July 1, 2026) seeking orthopedic hardware removal and extraction system services on an as-needed basis for acute-care surgical procedures, with ISO 13485:2016 certification required and Northern California technical support mandated. Proposers must demonstrate five years of experience with universal extraction systems compatible with multiple implant manufacturers and $1 million in products liability insurance per occurrence. The contract term is three years with local-business preference of 5 to 10 percent under San Mateo County Ordinance Code Chapter 2.89. Geographic activity is concentrated in California, with the furniture and orthopedic solicitations both posted in July 2026; issuing bodies include the State of California (capital projects), a county health system (San Mateo Medical Center), and cooperative purchasing vehicles serving multi-state jurisdictions. State and local procurement under this code remains sparse and fragmented.