UNSPSC 42295487: Rubber bands for surgical use

Sterile rubber bands for surgical use

UNSPSC 42295487 Rubber bands for surgical use (Commodity) does not see material recent state and local procurement activity. The code appears in a single recent opportunity: the Minnesota Multigovernmental Cooperative Purchasing Alliance (MMCAP) RFP 37259 for full-line medical supplies and equipment distribution, posted June 12, 2026, with proposals due July 20, 2026. MMCAP's scope spans gloves and personal protective equipment, needles and syringes, wound care products, patient point-of-care testing, specimen collection supplies, hospital furnishings, breast pumps, and surgical instruments — a broad medical supply portfolio where surgical rubber bands would constitute a minor line item rather than a category focus. The remaining four opportunities in the source (career technical education instructional resources from Klein ISD, school furniture from Pinellas County Schools and Marion County Schools, FFE coordination services from Mt. San Antonio College, and FFE procurement from Dodgeville Public Library) bear no relation to the code's scope.

Activity under this code is concentrated in Minnesota through the MMCAP cooperative purchasing vehicle, which serves approximately 8,000 actively purchasing government members across the United States with $300 million in collective annual medical supply purchasing power. MMCAP respondents must demonstrate capacity to supply at least twenty states and maintain at least 750 active ship-to locations monthly, signaling that awarded vendors will distribute nationally through a single cooperative agreement rather than through multiple state or local direct procurements. The code's narrow focus on a single component within a much larger medical supply ecosystem, combined with the absence of parallel recent opportunities from other state purchasing offices, school districts, or local health systems, indicates limited standalone procurement traction at the state and local level.