UNSPSC 42296612: Stereotactic system components and assemblies

In this classification, this commodity indicates a product used as a component or assembly for a system that performs a medical intervention which makes use of a three-dimensional coordinate system to locate small targets inside the body and to perform on them some action such as ablation, biopsy, lesion, injection, stimulation, implantation, radiosurgery in a medical setting Most nations, for tariff and trade purposes, schedule these products under HS 901890.

UNSPSC 42296612 Stereotactic system components and assemblies is a Commodity code, but the recent state and local opportunities posted under it show little alignment with the code's nominal scope. The five recent solicitations include laser equipment and technical support for operating rooms, surgical power instruments, outpatient building furniture, and law enforcement equipment — none of which are stereotactic system components in the typical sense. State and local procurement offices appear to have tagged these opportunities with this code either in error or as a catch-all for surgical and medical equipment procurement. The mismatch suggests either a classification problem in the underlying database or that "stereotactic system components" is being interpreted much more broadly than the code's name implies. Without additional context linking these solicitations to stereotactic systems specifically, the code shows limited reliable activity signal for firms targeting stereotactic equipment sales.

The issuing bodies in the recent opportunities block span county healthcare systems (San Mateo County Medical Center), state capital improvement programs (State of California), and multi-jurisdictional cooperative purchasing vehicles (Sourcewell on behalf of Washington state counties). The geographic concentration appears to be California and Washington, with the California State opportunities focusing on outpatient building furniture and San Mateo County on surgical equipment. The most concrete recent opportunity is San Mateo Medical Center's RFP for surgical power equipment, posted May 7, 2026, with proposals due May 28, 2026; the procurement carries a five-year contract term, requires a Living Wage Ordinance compliance commitment at $17.00 per hour minimum, and applies a local business preference of five to eight percent scoring. A second San Mateo County RFP for laser equipment and OR technical support was posted May 13, 2026, with proposals due June 10, 2026. The Sourcewell cooperative RFP #061626 for law enforcement equipment, due June 16, 2026, does not logically fit this code and suggests a classification error.