UNSPSC 42292304: Surgical tensioners

In this classification, this commodity indicates a product used as a tensioner during a surgical procedure in a medical setting. Most nations, for tariff and trade purposes, schedule these products under HS 901920.

UNSPSC 42292304 Surgical tensioners, a Commodity code, shows minimal recent state and local procurement activity aligned with the code's nominal scope. The five recent opportunities tagged under this code span laser equipment and technical support for operating rooms, surgical power instruments, outpatient building furniture, law enforcement equipment, and phlebotomy services — a disparate set indicating inconsistent or inaccurate code assignment rather than coherent procurement under a single commodity line. Only the surgical power equipment solicitation from San Mateo County has plausible relevance to surgical instrument tensioning or power delivery, though the connection remains tangential. The remaining opportunities (outpatient furniture from California, law enforcement gear from a Sourcewell cooperative, and phlebotomy services from Nevada State Police) bear no meaningful relationship to surgical tensioners and suggest either data quality issues in the tagging layer or historical code-assignment drift.

San Mateo County Medical Center, the primary issuing body appearing in the record, issued two RFPs in May–June 2026 for surgical equipment — one for laser systems and technical staffing (due June 10, 2026) and another for surgical power equipment (due May 28, 2026, with a five-year contract term). Both solicitations require compliance with HIPAA, California prevailing wage standards, and San Mateo County's local business preference (awarding five percent additional evaluation points to local businesses, three percent for small businesses, or eight percent for micro businesses). The surgical power RFP explicitly requires five years of prior experience in manufacturing, sales, or leasing of similar products, general liability insurance of $1 million per occurrence, and professional liability of $1 million per occurrence / $3 million aggregate. Given the absence of meaningful historical activity clearly connected to surgical tensioner procurement and the weak alignment between the recent opportunities and the code name, this code warrants watch status rather than active pursuit pending clarification of actual buying patterns.