UNSPSC 51352418: Ethynodiol/mestranol

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 HS200. This VA Drug Class (HS200) classifies this compound as belonging to the group CONTRACEPTIVES, SYSTEMIC.

UNSPSC 51352418 Ethynodiol/mestranol is a Commodity code representing a specific oral contraceptive formulation — a combination of the progestin ethynodiol diacetate and the estrogen mestranol — that state and local governments procure primarily through their public health departments, medicaid programs, and family planning clinics to support reproductive health services for eligible populations. The code captures a narrow pharmaceutical product line rather than a broader service family, and procurement under it reflects demand from health agencies managing contraceptive inventory for community health centers, county health departments, and state medicaid formularies.

The source provides no recent state and local contract opportunities tagged to this Commodity code. Without posted RFPs, RFQs, IFBs, or ITBs naming ethynodiol/mestranol procurement, no issuing bodies, geographic concentration, or representative solicitation details can be identified. State and local procurement activity under highly specific pharmaceutical commodity codes often occurs through standing cooperative purchasing agreements, state medicaid contracts, or vendor-managed inventory arrangements rather than as individual competitive solicitations, which may explain the absence of visible recent postings. Business development professionals evaluating this code should monitor state medicaid agency notices and cooperative purchasing vehicles (such as state health-related cooperatives or national pharmaceutical purchasing groups) rather than rely on discrete project-level solicitations.