UNSPSC 85801148: Change packing material on left lower arm

This classification denotes the group of activities that yields a placement intervention or procedure to change packing material on left lower arm. This placement 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 2W0DX5Z

UNSPSC 85801148 Change packing material on left lower arm is a Commodity code showing minimal alignment with recent state and local procurement activity. The code nominally describes a specific prosthetic or orthotic component maintenance service, yet the recent opportunities block contains no solicitations matching this narrow scope. Instead, the fifteen most recent state and local opportunities tagged to this code span clinical laboratory testing, occupational health examinations, drug screening, pharmacy services, medical waste handling, and inmate healthcare—an eclectic mix that suggests either systematic miscoding in source records or conflation of unrelated medical and laboratory services under a single UNSPSC identifier. The source contains no evidence of state or local governments actively procuring the specific work the code name describes.

State and local procurement activity in the opportunities block reflects substantial demand for clinical laboratory services across multiple issuing-body types: state health and human services departments (Illinois DHS, Texas HHSC, Colorado DHS, Michigan MDHHS, Kentucky Veterans Affairs), county health and medical examiner offices (Hillsborough County Fire Rescue occupational wellness, District of Columbia Chief Medical Examiner postmortem testing, Brevard County histology), school districts (Austin ISD, Northside ISD occupational screening), municipal utilities (City of Palm Bay wastewater testing), and specialized service districts (Oregon State Police occupational health, Texas Animal Health Commission field personnel testing). Representative recent solicitations include the Illinois Department of Human Services IFB for clinical laboratory services across fourteen mental health and developmental disability facilities (due August 4, 2026, with a 7 percent Business Enterprise Program set-aside), the Texas Health and Human Services Commission IFB for EPA-NLLAP-accredited lead sample analysis (due July 31, 2026, with a 26 percent HUB subcontracting goal), and the State of Nevada RFP for statewide clinical laboratory testing with a 5 percent Nevada-vendor preference (due July 13, 2026). Geographic concentration spans Texas, Illinois, Kentucky, Nevada, Colorado, Michigan, Florida, Georgia, and Oregon, with repeated activity in Texas and Kentucky reflecting ongoing veterans' facility laboratory procurement cycles. Issuing bodies show no pattern of repeat sole-source awards or preferred vendors; most procurements are competitive RFPs or IFBs with multiple-vendor awards, set-asides for state-certified small businesses or historically underutilized businesses, and evaluation emphasizing technical capability (CLIA certification, accreditation, turnaround-time performance) and pricing. The code itself does not map to the work actually being solicited.