UNSPSC 85171701: Necropsy service

Service to perform examinations on corpses to determine the causes of death

UNSPSC 85171701 Necropsy service is a Commodity code that, based on recent state and local procurement activity, encompasses medical and laboratory services far broader than the nominal code name suggests. The recent opportunities block shows no direct necropsy solicitations; instead, the code has been applied to nursing staffing for medically fragile students, virtual urgent care, dialysis services, laboratory maintenance, DOT medical exams, laboratory services across multiple modalities, occupational health screening, phlebotomy, fire department occupational wellness, and postmortem testing — a collection spanning clinical staffing, direct patient care, specimen collection and analysis, and occupational medicine. Issuing bodies include school districts (Hillsborough County Public Schools), health plans (Inland Empire Health Plan), county corrections departments (Escambia County), county health systems (Santa Clara), state health agencies (Texas HHSC, Illinois DHS), cities (Tucson, Austin, Arlington), counties (Harris, Rockland, Santa Clara, Forsyth, Collin, Monroe, Boulder, Bernalillo), transit authorities (Dallas Area Rapid Transit), veteran affairs facilities (Illinois, Kentucky), and specialized districts (Integral Care, Trophy Club Fire Department). Repeat buyers are not evident from a single-code view; the issuing bodies appear to be one-off solicitations within their respective jurisdictions.

Recent activity spans multiple U.S. states with no clear geographic concentration. Texas dominates the recent opportunities block with solicitations from the Health and Human Services Commission, Harris County, Collin County, Rockland County, Inland Empire Health Plan (California), and Illinois (DHS, Department of Veterans Affairs) each posting multiple solicitations. Representative recent opportunities include Hillsborough County Public Schools' Notice of Intent to Purchase Single/Sole Source for nursing staffing services (Solicitation 25619SSDDST, RFP, due Dec. 2, 2025, estimated $2.48 million over three years), Escambia County Corrections Department's proposal solicitation for onsite chronic dialysis services (Solicitation PD2526121, RFP, due Nov. 3, 2026), Inland Empire Health Plan's RFI for 24/7/365 virtual urgent care services (Solicitation 2607426, RFI, due Oct. 31, 2026), and the State of Nevada's statewide clinical laboratory testing RFP (Solicitation 99SWC-S3830, RFP, due July 13, 2026, anticipated four-year term with two optional renewal years). The code shows substantial recent activity but exhibits scope misalignment with its nominal definition — state and local governments are buying diverse clinical and occupational health services under this taxonomy marker, not necropsy-specific work.