UNSPSC 42295453: Surgical drains or drain sets

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

UNSPSC 42295453 Surgical drains or drain sets is a Commodity code, but the recent opportunities tagged under it show minimal alignment with surgical drains themselves; instead, they span orthopedic hardware extraction systems, law enforcement equipment, and spinal implants. Of these three, only the San Mateo Medical Center solicitation relates tangentially to surgical instrumentation—it concerns orthopedic hardware removal and extraction systems for surgical procedures—while the Sourcewell law enforcement equipment RFP and the University of Texas Health Science Center spinal implants RFP are plainly unrelated to the code's nominal scope. State and local procurement offices appear to have applied this code inconsistently or incorrectly to these opportunities. The code shows little relevant recent activity grounded in actual surgical drain procurement.

The single potentially relevant opportunity is San Mateo Medical Center's RFP for orthopedic hardware removal and extraction system services, posted July 1, 2026 with a response deadline of the same date, available to vendors meeting five years of orthopedic hardware extraction experience, ISO 13485:2016 certification, and capability to serve acute-care hospitals in Northern California. The contract term is three years from execution, with San Mateo County Ordinance Code Chapter 2.89 offering a local-business preference of 5 to 10 percent. Evaluation criteria weight project approach (30 points), firm qualifications (25 points), team qualifications (20 points), and price (25 points). Without additional opportunities demonstrating consistent state and local procurement of surgical drains under this code, the category does not present a clear market signal at this time.