UNSPSC 85000000: Healthcare Services

This segment includes services associated with both research and delivery of healthcare. This segment also includes traditional and alternative healthcare professionals such as doctors, nurses, and therapists as well as services related to alternative medicine. This segment also includes hospitals, clinics, lab services and pharmacists.

UNSPSC 85000000 Healthcare Services, a Segment code, covers clinical and therapeutic care delivery to patients across state and local health systems, behavioral health programs, emergency medical response, and specialized populations including incarcerated individuals, children with disabilities, and those experiencing homelessness. Recent state and local procurement activity under this code shows a mix of direct service delivery, managed care administration, staffing augmentation, and program management. Issuing bodies include state health departments (Utah, Rhode Island, Missouri, Maryland, Colorado, Connecticut), county health systems and sheriffs' offices (Orange County California, Santa Clara County California, Boulder County Colorado), school districts (Missouri Schools for the Severely Disabled), and specialty agencies such as parole boards and corrections departments. The Utah Department of Health and Human Services, Rhode Island Executive Office of Health and Human Services, and Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education are repeat buyers. Work being solicited ranges from specialized clinical services—coordinated specialty care for youth at clinical high-risk for psychosis, occupational and physical therapy for children with severe disabilities, forensic pathology autopsy services, and psychiatric nursing in correctional facilities—to broader managed care administration covering Medicaid dental programs, dual-eligible special needs plans, and statewide behavioral health access systems. Representative recent solicitations include the Utah Division of Purchasing's Amendment 2 to Contract 246135 with Volunteers of America of Utah for mental health services to high-risk youth (sole-source notice, due October 23, 2026), the Rhode Island Executive Office of Health and Human Services' Medicaid Managed Care Dental Program administration (RFP, due November 13, 2026), Orange County California's Forensic Pathology Autopsy Services (RFP, due October 30, 2026), and the Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services' recovery community centers for people who use drugs (RFP, due December 18, 2026).

Recent activity concentrates in California (Orange and Santa Clara counties), Colorado, Connecticut, Maryland, Missouri, Rhode Island, and Utah. A secondary layer includes independent jurisdictions such as the City of Phoenix (peer recovery specialists), the Boulder County Sheriff's Office (jail EMT staffing), and the Rhode Island Parole Board (inmate psychosocial assessments). Several procurements reflect expansion or amendment of existing contracts under sole-source justifications—notably Utah's multiple mental health and data management service extensions and Missouri's school-based therapy continuations—signaling stable, multi-year funding and high switching costs. Managed care and system-level opportunities (Fully Integrated Dual Eligible Special Needs Plans, statewide Homeless to Housing coordination, children's behavioral health Single Point of Access platform design) target larger organizations with operational capacity, regulatory expertise, and multi-jurisdiction delivery capability. Smaller specialized contracts for individual clinicians, therapy services, and emergency response staffing appear in school districts and county jails. Set-asides and local preferences appear frequently in California (OCLSB, DVBE), Rhode Island (MBE/WBE), Maryland (small business, veteran-owned), and Utah (where sole-source awards and boycott certification requirements structure the landscape). Pricing is predominantly firm fixed-fee hourly, per-unit, or per-service models with no guaranteed volume; contract terms typically run two to five years with renewal options.