NIGP 42024: Folding Chairs, Tables, and Chair Trucks, Metal

NIGP 42024 Folding Chairs, Tables, and Chair Trucks, Metal is an Item code that covers metal folding seating, tables, and material-handling equipment for classroom, office, residential, and event settings. State and local governments procure these items as components of larger furniture packages for schools, higher education institutions, municipal event operations, and facility upgrades. The work being solicited ranges from individual line items within comprehensive cafeteria or student-housing furniture bids to standalone micro purchases of event-setup equipment. Issuing bodies include school districts, state university systems, purchasing cooperatives serving education, city procurement bureaus, and cooperative purchasing agencies. The Texas School for the Deaf, Harlandale Independent School District, and the Cooperative Purchasing Agency (serving 35 Georgia school systems) are recent active buyers; additionally, region-wide education purchasing cooperatives such as Region 7 Purchasing Cooperative and Sourcewell establish framework agreements that distribute orders across thousands of participating entities. Specifications are granular — unit pricing, freight-prepaid FOB destination, assembly and installation, material finishes, weight ratings, cushioning depth, and warranty terms (often lifetime on frame and workmanship with component-specific coverage for dampers, casters, and tops) are standard contract requirements.

Recent activity centers on Texas, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and multi-state cooperative purchasing vehicles. The Texas Facilities Commission's RFP (Solicitation 0010514, due September 10, 2026) solicits task chairs, guest chairs, stacking chairs, high task tables, and counter stools across five bid packages totaling 267 units for student housing and classroom expansion at the Texas School for the Deaf, with mandatory VetHUB subcontracting plan requirements and pricing valid through December 31, 2027. The Cooperative Purchasing Agency's warehouse-stock furniture bid (Solicitation PE55964NONST2027000000049, due September 22, 2026) requests student desks, activity tables, office chairs, and storage cabinets in estimated annual quantities of 2 to 150 units depending on the item, with a one-year contract running January 1 through December 31, 2027. The Harlandale Independent School District's cafeteria upgrade RFP (Solicitation 260012, due May 28, 2026) procured cafeteria chairs and tables for two high schools with an August 7, 2026 completion deadline and a preference for SICO brand or equivalent. Region 7 Purchasing Cooperative's classroom furniture catalog discount bid (Solicitation CLSF2628, originally due May 26, 2026) estimated $21.568 million in total expenditures across a two-year contract term and built on a vendor base of 62 prior awardees. The City of Philadelphia's micro purchase (Solicitation B2727546, due July 20, 2026) included padded metal folding chairs as part of outreach event supplies. Cooperative purchasing frameworks dominate this code, enabling standardized pricing and terms across education networks and multi-jurisdictional government entities.