UNSPSC 42295509: Plastic or cosmetic tissue expanders or sets

In this classification, this commodity indicates a set of instruments and consumables or an expander used in a plastic or cosmetic surgery procedure in a medical settingPlastic or cosmetic tissue expanders or sets under 21 CFR and under FDA product code LCJ. Most nations, for tariff and trade purposes, schedule these products under HS 901890.

UNSPSC 42295509 Plastic or cosmetic tissue expanders or sets is a Commodity code, but the recent state and local opportunities posted under it do not align with its stated scope. The three most recent solicitations — a law enforcement equipment cooperative procurement, a cardiac rhythm management implantable devices RFP, and a spinal implants bill-only contract — involve no tissue expanders or cosmetic implants and instead focus on law enforcement gear, pacemakers and defibrillators, and spinal surgical hardware respectively. This code shows no relevant recent activity for tissue expanders or related plastic surgery supplies among state and local buyers.

The mismatch between the code's nominal scope and the actual solicitations posted under it indicates either a data-classification error in the opportunities or a divergence in how state and local procurement systems tag medical device contracts. The University Medical Center of El Paso (Texas) and the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio are the issuing bodies, both operating teaching hospitals, with activity concentrated in Texas and Washington state through a cooperative purchasing arrangement. Vendors evaluating this code for business development purposes should treat it as unreliable for targeting tissue expander procurement and instead track these opportunities through direct relationships with academic medical centers and health system purchasing offices or through broader surgical implant family codes.