UNSPSC 42321508: Orthopedic nuts

In this classification, this commodity indicates a product used as an orthopedic nut in a surgical procedure in a medical setting. Most nations, for tariff and trade purposes, schedule these products under HS 902110.

UNSPSC 42321508 Orthopedic nuts, a Commodity code, represents a narrow product category within orthopedic surgical supplies that state and local governments acquire primarily through cooperative purchasing vehicles and health system procurement. The code shows minimal direct solicitation activity; the recent opportunities block contains one tangentially related record—San Mateo Medical Center's RFP for orthopedic hardware removal and extraction system services—which encompasses delivery, technical support, and retrieval of instrumentation for removing orthopedic implants, screws, and intramedullary nails, but does not specifically name nuts as a line item. The three remaining opportunities in the block (NASPO ValuePoint's medical-supplies master agreement, Sourcewell's physical health products cooperative vehicle, and California's outpatient building furniture procurement) do not detail orthopedic nuts or fastener-level components in their available scope descriptions. Purchasing under this code typically flows through health systems, acute-care hospitals, surgical centers, and county medical centers that perform orthopedic procedures, with acquisition often bundled into broader medical-supplies frameworks or vendor-direct relationships rather than standalone commodity buys.

The geographic activity is confined to the West and Upper Midwest based on the one substantively relevant opportunity: San Mateo Medical Center (California) issued RFP 666002526252 for orthopedic hardware extraction services on July 1, 2026, with a three-year contract term and requirements for ISO 13485:2016 certification, $1 million general and products liability insurance per occurrence, and Northern California technical support availability. The broader cooperative purchasing vehicles (NASPO ValuePoint with South Dakota administration and Sourcewell based in Minnesota) establish master agreements for medical supplies across multiple states, but do not itemize orthopedic nuts specifically in their posted scope summaries. The code sees limited recent solicitation activity under its precise commodity definition; procurement professionals pursuing this code should expect activity to surface through health system capital equipment budgets, orthopedic surgery department purchasing, and cooperative-vehicle master agreements rather than through standalone RFPs or IFBs for the fastener itself.