UNSPSC 42292504: Surgical presses

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

UNSPSC 42292504 Surgical presses (Commodity) describes equipment and technical services for operating room use, but recent state and local activity under this code shows minimal direct alignment with surgical press procurement. The code sees sparse relevant activity, with recent opportunities tagged to it instead covering broader surgical equipment, power tools, and facility furnishings that fall outside the surgical press scope. San Mateo County Medical Center has posted two RFPs—one for laser equipment and OR technical support (Solicitation 666002526250, due July 10, 2026) and one for surgical power equipment to replace obsolete instruments (Solicitation 666002526249, RFP, due May 28, 2026)—both soliciting on behalf of a public hospital system. Neither opportunity explicitly targets surgical presses. State of California has also posted two IFBs for outpatient building furniture (Solicitation RFBIS26200986, due June 9, 2026, and RFBIS26200984, due June 4, 2026), which are similarly unrelated to surgical presses. A Sourcewell cooperative procurement (RFP #061626, due June 16, 2026) for law enforcement equipment and a Nevada State Police RFP for phlebotomy services (Solicitation 65DPSS3788, due April 16, 2026) round out the recent opportunities but have no connection to surgical press equipment.

The geographic footprint of tagged opportunities spans California and Nevada, with one cooperative vehicle based in Minnesota serving multiple states. However, the consistent mismatch between the code's nominal scope and the actual work being solicited suggests that UNSPSC 42292504 is not a reliable search indicator for current surgical press procurement in state and local markets. Buyers in this space appear to be tagging surgical equipment, power tools, and facility goods under this code without regard to the surgical press definition. A firm pursuing surgical press sales should monitor San Mateo County and similar public health systems directly and not rely on this code as a primary sourcing signal.