UNSPSC 60103920: Staining kits or supplies

UNSPSC 60103920 Staining kits or supplies, a Commodity code, nominally encompasses consumable preparation and testing materials for laboratory and educational applications. The recent opportunities tagged under this code reveal minimal activity aligned with the staining-kit scope; state and local buyers soliciting under this code are overwhelmingly school districts procuring broad instructional materials, science supplies, and STEM kits rather than specialized staining or laboratory-chemistry products. The issuing bodies are independent school districts (Harlingen Consolidated ISD, Katy ISD, Cartwright Elementary School District, Cobb County School District) and regional school boards (Seminole County, Florida), with Katy ISD and Cobb County School District appearing as repeat buyers across multiple procurement cycles. The work being solicited includes reading and video materials, general teaching supplies, STEM education kits, science specimens, chemicals, and equipment for K-12 instruction—scopes that overlap marginally with staining-kit procurement and suggest code-tagging drift rather than targeted demand for specialty laboratory consumables.

Geographic activity concentrates in Texas (Harlingen and Katy ISDs in Harris and surrounding counties) and Georgia (Cobb County School District serving 105,738 students across 112 school sites), with a single procurement in Florida (Seminole County). Representative recent opportunities include Harlingen Consolidated ISD's IFB CRDG1026 for Reading & Video Materials with response due October 1, 2026; Katy ISD's RFP #2428KD-A for teaching and instructional materials, supplies, equipment, and services with a contract term through October 22, 2027 and renewal options through 2030; Cartwright Elementary School District's RFP 260331 on behalf of the SAVE consortium for STEM and College & Career Readiness Kits and Materials, serving multiple Arizona school districts, municipalities, and higher education institutions with estimated annual usage of $1,346,000; and Cobb County School District's IFB B26128 for science supplies with an estimated annual expenditure of $175,000 and response due June 16, 2026. This code shows little recent demand aligned with the staining-kit commodity definition and warrants careful scope review before pursuit.