UNSPSC 42291634: Surgical snare or snare wire accessories

Items used with surgical snares or snare wires

UNSPSC 42291634 Surgical snare or snare wire accessories is a Commodity code that in recent state and local procurement activity encompasses tick pullers, identification cards, and surgical power equipment — products bearing only tangential or no clear relationship to the code's nominal scope of snare wire and accessories. The City of Philadelphia and San Mateo Medical Center (SMMC), a California county public hospital system, are among the issuing bodies soliciting under or near this code. The Philadelphia procurement is a micro purchase for tick pullers and identification cards with a contract ceiling of $41,000 and a 365-day term, while the SMMC solicitation is a five-year RFP for surgical power equipment to replace obsolete instruments in hospital and clinic facilities. The code shows limited alignment between its abstract definition and the work actually being bought; tick pullers and identification cards do not represent snare wire accessories, and surgical power equipment differs substantially from snare or snare-wire consumables or parts.

Recent activity spans California and Pennsylvania, with the Philadelphia micro purchase due September 2, 2026 and the San Mateo RFP originally posted in late May 2026 with a submission deadline of May 28, 2026. A third opportunity, posted by Sourcewell (a Minnesota local government cooperative) on behalf of participating entities in Washington, Franklin, Grant, Grays Harbor, Chelan, and Yakima counties, solicits law enforcement equipment through an RFP due June 16, 2026 — a procurement entirely unrelated to surgical or snare-wire products. The geographic spread is modest and scattered, with no clear concentration. The mismatch between the code's stated scope and the recent opportunities' actual content signals that vendors pursuing snare or snare-wire accessories should verify code assignments in individual RFPs before bidding; the code does not reliably predict what state and local buyers are sourcing under 42291634 at present.