UNSPSC 42322206: Soft tissue staples

in this classification, this commodity indicates a product used as a soft tissue staple in a surgical procedure in a medical setting. Most nations, for tariff and trade purposes, schedule these products under HS 902129.

UNSPSC 42322206 Soft tissue staples, a Commodity code, covers surgical stapling instruments and related supplies used in acute-care hospital operating rooms and outpatient surgical centers. State and local government procurement under this code focuses on establishing master agreements and cooperative-purchasing vehicles that consolidate demand across multiple jurisdictions to achieve favorable pricing on medical consumables, rather than individual institutional purchases. Recent solicitations show health systems and cooperative-purchasing intermediaries seeking qualified vendors to supply orthopedic extraction systems, medical supplies broadly, and related surgical instrumentation on an as-needed or master-agreement basis.

Issuing bodies include county health systems (San Mateo Medical Center, a public hospital and clinic operator in California), state-level cooperative-purchasing vehicles (NASPO ValuePoint, administered by South Dakota, and Sourcewell, a Minnesota local government unit), and individual state agencies. The most visible recent activity clusters around cooperative agreements designed to serve participating state and local entities across multiple states rather than single-agency procurements. San Mateo Medical Center posted an RFP (666002526252) for orthopedic hardware removal and extraction system services with proposals due July 1, 2026, requiring ISO 13485:2016 certification and five years of acute-care hospital experience; NASPO ValuePoint posted RFP 26RFP1433 for medical supplies with proposals due November 9, 2026 at 5:00 p.m. Mountain Time through Idaho's procurement system; and Sourcewell posted an RFP (26RFP102026) for physical health products and related services with proposals due October 20, 2026 at 3:30 p.m. Central Time. Geographic activity spans California, the upper Midwest, and the multi-state NASPO ValuePoint network, though the source does not detail concentration across specific regions beyond these jurisdictions.