UNSPSC 51172480: Sodium bicarbonate/sodium citrate

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 GA110. This VA Drug Class (GA110) classifies this compound as belonging to the group SODIUM BICARBONATE CONTAINING ANTACIDS.

UNSPSC 51172480 Sodium bicarbonate/sodium citrate is a Commodity code with minimal direct recent activity in state and local procurement. The recent opportunities tagged under this code do not align with the code's nominal scope—the most prominent solicitation is a specimen collection and drug testing RFP, and the other two are a pharmaceutical manufacturers' RFI and a multistate cooperative purchasing agreement for generic pharmaceuticals and OTC products. None of these solicitations target sodium bicarbonate or sodium citrate specifically, suggesting either systematic miscoding or that the code sits dormant for actual procurement of these chemical products at the state and local level. The code does not appear to reflect active procurement of sodium bicarbonate or sodium citrate as standalone products or as ingredients in formulations that state and local governments are currently buying.

The mismatch between the code's scope and the tagged opportunities indicates limited applicability for vendors supplying sodium bicarbonate or sodium citrate to state and local buyers. If activity under this code does exist, it is either not surfacing in recent public solicitations or is being captured under different UNSPSC codes. Vendors targeting state and local procurement of alkalizing agents, antacids, or pharmaceutical buffers should verify the actual coding used in their target jurisdictions' procurement systems and consider monitoring related chemical and pharmaceutical commodity codes for more relevant opportunities.