UNSPSC 51102808: Acetic acid/hydrocortisone

This classification denotes a combination drug defined by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in its (VA's) National Drug File (NDF), which falls under VA Drug Class OT250. This VA Drug Class (OT250) classifies this compound as belonging to the group ANTI-INFECTIVE/ANTI-INFLAMMATORY COMBINATIONS, TOPICAL OTIC.

UNSPSC 51102808 Acetic acid/hydrocortisone is a Commodity code with little recent activity directly aligned to its nominal scope. The recent state and local opportunities tagged under this code show a significant mismatch: they involve naloxone procurement, first-aid medical supplies for fire rescue, generic pharmaceuticals through cooperative purchasing, and direct-to-manufacturer prescription programs—none of which center on acetic acid or hydrocortisone formulations. The code appears to capture pharmaceutical and medical-supply purchasing broadly when state and local systems apply it, even where the actual solicitation addresses different product lines. What state and local governments actually buy under this code, based on tagged opportunities, spans emergency-response pharmaceuticals (naloxone), generic multi-source drugs and OTC products distributed through wholesalers, fire-rescue medical consumables, and pharmacy benefit administration services—a wider and less chemically specific scope than the code's name suggests.

Recent opportunities originate from diverse issuing bodies including county health departments (Seminole County, Florida), state health agencies (Texas Health and Human Services Commission), city fire departments (City of Tampa), and cooperative purchasing alliances serving multiple states (Minnesota Multistate Cooperative Purchasing Alliance, or MMCAP, spanning Minnesota and Oregon). Geographic activity centers on Florida, Texas, and the Upper Midwest, with MMCAP's multi-state cooperative model extending reach across participating jurisdictions. Representative solicitations include Seminole County's IFB for 1,900 units of naloxone and 800 safe drug deactivation systems annually (IFB 60459723LAS, due July 26, 2023); the City of Tampa's IFB for 169 line items of medical and first-aid supplies for the Tampa Fire Department Rescue Division, estimated at $700,000.00 with a sheltered SLBE set-aside and 5 percent bid discount (IFB 26P00145, due March 13, 2026); and MMCAP's RFP to establish multiple contracts for generic pharmaceuticals and OTC products through three authorized wholesalers with proposals due March 26, 2026 (S1070000015802). The code's recent activity reflects state and local reliance on cooperative purchasing vehicles and multi-award frameworks to manage pharmaceutical and medical-supply sourcing across distributed networks of public health, emergency-response, and employee-benefit operations.