UNSPSC 85601736: Excision of descending colon, via natural or artificial opening

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to excision of descending colon, via natural or artificial opening. This surgical intervention or procedure is listed in the World Health Organization's International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems or ICD-10 as code 0DBM7ZZ

UNSPSC 85601736 Excision of descending colon, via natural or artificial opening (Commodity) shows minimal alignment with actual state and local procurement activity. The code's medical-procedure taxonomy does not match the work being solicited under it.

Recent opportunities posted under this code span occupational health surveillance, pension disability medical evaluations, surgical benefit network management, pharmacy benefit administration, temporary health professional staffing, and juvenile detention medical services — none of which involve gastrointestinal surgical procedures. The Washington State Department of Transportation is procuring occupational medical surveillance services for ferry system workers across 14 Washington locations with a pre-bid conference scheduled August 31, 2026 and proposals due October 9, 2026; the City of Phoenix Retirement Office is seeking independent medical evaluation services for public safety pension disability determinations with proposals due October 16, 2026; and the City of Long Beach is requesting proposals for a surgical procedure carve-out benefit program centered on Centers of Excellence for knee, hip, orthopedic, shoulder, spine, heart, weight loss, and oncology procedures, with proposals due October 7, 2026. The County of Santa Clara Health System is establishing a qualified vendor pool for temporary health professional staffing across 13 ancillary clinical categories with proposals due October 7, 2026. Collier County is procuring pharmacy benefit management services with a historical annual spend of approximately $8.7 million and proposals due April 9, 2026. Harris County Juvenile Probation Department issued a limited-scope RFI for emergency and specialty medical services for detained youth with responses due September 25, 2026.

The mismatch between the code descriptor and posted opportunities suggests this Commodity code is either misconfigured in the source jurisdiction's tagging systems or serves as a catch-all for health services administration and occupational medicine work that does not fit surgical procedure categories. Geographic activity centers on California, Washington, Arizona, Texas, and Florida; no issuing body appears twice in the recent record. Vendors pursuing this code should treat it as a low-confidence procurement signal and verify scope alignment directly in each RFP rather than relying on the code descriptor.