UNSPSC 85602412: Bypass sigmoid colon to sigmoid colon with synthetic substitute, percutaneous endoscopic approach

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a surgical intervention or procedure to bypass sigmoid colon to sigmoid colon with synthetic substitute, percutaneous endoscopic approach. 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 0D1N4JN

UNSPSC 85602412 Bypass sigmoid colon to sigmoid colon with synthetic substitute, percutaneous endoscopic approach is a Commodity code that does not reflect state and local government procurement activity. The six recent opportunities tagged under this code span independent medical evaluation services for public safety pension boards, surgical benefit carve-out programs for municipal employees, occupational medical surveillance for state transportation workers, emergency and specialty medical services for detained youth, pharmacy benefit management, and temporary health professional staffing — none of which involve gastrointestinal surgical procedures or the specific medical intervention the code nominally describes. The mismatch between the code's clinical focus and the actual scope of recent solicitations suggests either a cataloging error in the source data or inconsistent application of UNSPSC taxonomy by the issuing bodies. State and local procurement systems occasionally tag opportunities with codes that do not align with the work being bought, particularly when the issuing body is prioritizing administrative classification over precise commodity coding.

The recent opportunities span multiple issuing bodies and geographies: the City of Phoenix Retirement Office (Arizona), the City of Long Beach (California), the Washington State Department of Transportation (Washington), Harris County Juvenile Probation Department (Texas), Collier County Board of County Commissioners (Florida), and the County of Santa Clara Health System (California). Without concrete evidence that these jurisdictions are repeatedly procuring services under this code or that the code represents a meaningful category for business development purposes, treating this Commodity code as actionable would require clarification from the source or the issuing bodies themselves on whether the tagging reflects deliberate scope alignment or administrative error. The divergence between the code name and actual procurement activity is sufficiently pronounced that pursuing opportunities under this code would rest on demonstrating to each issuing body that the work truly belongs in this taxonomy — a precondition unlikely to hold across multiple unrelated solicitations in different states.