UNSPSC 42296808: Surgical custom or specialty instruments

In this classification, this commodity indicates a product used as a set of custom or specialty instruments during a surgical procedure in a medical setting. Most nations, for tariff and trade purposes, schedule these products under HS 901890.

UNSPSC 42296808 Surgical custom or specialty instruments, a Commodity code, encompasses laser equipment for surgical applications, surgical power instruments, and phlebotomy services that state and local health care systems currently acquire for clinical and law enforcement operations. The code sees activity from county-operated public hospitals, state health agencies, and specialized service providers pursuing contracts to supply equipment, technical staffing, and professional services for acute-care and outpatient surgical environments. San Mateo County's San Mateo Medical Center has posted two recent RFPs—one for laser equipment and operating room technical support (posted July 10, 2026) and another for surgical power equipment to replace obsolete instruments (posted June 29, 2026 with proposal deadline May 28, 2026)—both requiring five-year contracts, HIPAA compliance, background clearances, and compliance with San Mateo County's Living Wage Ordinance at $17.00 per hour. The second RFP applies a local-business procurement preference that grants five percent additional points to local entities and three to eight percent additional points to small or micro businesses within San Mateo County and San Francisco City.

Recent activity is concentrated in California and Nevada. San Mateo County dominates the recent opportunity stream with two active surgical equipment procurements requiring qualified vendors with five years of prior experience in manufacturing, sales, or leasing similar products, general liability and professional liability insurance of $1,000,000 per occurrence, and cyber liability coverage of $5,000,000 per occurrence. The Nevada State Police solicited phlebotomy services for DUI blood-sample collection in the Minden-Gardnerville area (posted March 26, 2026, due April 16, 2026), with Carson Valley Health identified as the Notice of Intent to Award recipient pending final contract negotiation; the procurement required licensed phlebotomists compliant with Nevada Revised Statutes 484C.250 and strict chain-of-custody protocols. California state facilities issued two separate furniture bids for outpatient building projects in May 2026 with CBE set-asides, but those opportunities fall outside the surgical instruments scope and appear mistagged to this code. The code shows limited recent activity overall; decision-relevant signals center on San Mateo County's two active RFPs and their local-business preference structure and insurance requirements.