UNSPSC 42294218: Ear nose and throat ENT surgical instrument sets

In this classification, this commodity indicates a product used as a set of ear nose and throat ent surgical instruments during a surgical procedure in a medical setting. Most nations, for tariff and trade purposes, schedule these products under HS 901811.

UNSPSC 42294218 Ear nose and throat ENT surgical instrument sets, a Commodity code, shows minimal recent activity directly aligned with its nominal scope. The recent state and local opportunities tagged under this code diverge substantially from ENT surgical instruments: two solicitations concern outpatient building furniture (workstations, seating, storage), one addresses laser equipment and technical support for operating room use, one seeks surgical power equipment to replace obsolete power instruments, and one—posted by Sourcewell on behalf of multiple Washington state counties—solicits law enforcement equipment for cooperative purchasing. None of these opportunities involve ENT-specific surgical instrumentation, sutures, retractors, specula, or related hand instruments typical of otolaryngology practice.

The code shows recent activity only in California (San Mateo County Medical Center and the State of California capital projects) and Washington state (Sourcewell's cooperative purchasing vehicle serving Franklin, Grant, Grays Harbor, Chelan, and Yakima counties plus broader public-sector participation). San Mateo Medical Center appears twice as an issuing body—once for laser equipment and technical staffing (RFP 666002526250, due August 21, 2026) and once for surgical power equipment under a five-year term (RFP 666002526249, due June 5, 2026, with local business preference of 5–8 percent). The State of California issued two furniture procurements (RFBs due June 4 and June 9, 2026) with CBE participation requirements. The mismatch between the code's stated commodity and the actual work being solicited suggests either a tagging error on the issuing bodies' side or that this code does not currently see genuine ENT instrumentation procurement activity in the recent state and local pipeline. Vendors pursuing healthcare surgical supplies should monitor whether San Mateo Medical Center or California capital projects issue separate solicitations for diagnostic or surgical hand instruments, but this code as tagged does not reliably signal ENT instrumentation demand.