NIGP 20032: Hospital Wear, Patient

NIGP 20032 Hospital Wear, Patient, an Item code, encompasses incontinence briefs, suicide blankets, suicide smocks, and related specialized patient wear that state and local healthcare facilities, corrections departments, and long-term care operations procure on an as-needed or recurring basis. State and local governments buy these products to support daily operations at veterans homes, psychiatric facilities, correctional care units, and other institutional settings where patient safety, hygiene, and specialized containment needs drive procurement. The issuing bodies soliciting under this code include state-operated facilities (Illinois Veterans Home), county detention and care operations (Barrow County, Georgia), and independent school districts operating child nutrition or health programs. Vendors responding to opportunities under this code must meet strict product specifications, maintain relevant liability and workers' compensation insurance, and comply with institutional delivery and warranty requirements; many facilities require FOB destination delivery and impose twelve-month warranty periods on supplied items.

Recent activity shows procurement concentrated in the Southeast and Midwest. The Illinois Veterans Home Quincy posted a solicitation on April 28, 2026 (due May 1, 2026) for TENA brand incontinence briefs—600 cases total across two product types—to supply the facility through June 30, 2027 under a contract potentially extendable to ten years. Barrow County, Georgia solicited Suicide Blankets and Suicide Smocks on February 13, 2026 (due February 23, 2026) for its Care and Custody facility at Milledgeville Warehouse, establishing a one-year initial term with up to four one-year renewals. While the recent-opportunity block also includes a Laredo Independent School District grease-removal solicitation (not typical hospital wear procurement), the two sustained opportunities demonstrate that institutional patient-wear procurement occurs through competitive sealed proposals and RFPs with delivery windows of thirty days and FOB destination terms, insurance minimums ranging from $1 million to $5 million in aggregate coverage, and contract terms of one to ten years depending on issuing-body structure and renewal authority.