NIGP 42044: Institutional Furniture, All Types

NIGP 42044 Institutional Furniture, All Types (Item) covers the purchase, delivery, and installation of classroom, administrative, operational, and specialized furniture across K–12 school districts, counties, municipalities, universities, and public safety agencies. Recent solicitations reflect demand for student desks and chairs, teacher workstations, collaborative tables, library shelving systems, commercial-grade recliners and bed frames for fire stations, cafeteria seating, music storage equipment, and administrative furnishings—nearly all on as-needed or catalog-discount contract models with turnkey delivery and installation. School districts dominate the issuing-body mix, but county fire departments, municipal fire rescue operations, public libraries, and higher-education institutions also procure regularly under this code. Cobb County School District in Georgia has posted two overlapping opportunities (both RFP P27017, due November 11, 2026) for classroom and administrative furniture across multiple facilities, with an estimated value of $2.5 million over the contract term. Columbia County School District in Georgia has issued two separate solicitations for specialized furniture—music media shelving and library shelving systems—both in September 2026. Hillsborough County in Florida has issued multiple fire-station recliners bids, including a two-year sole-source procurement with DreamSeats LLC estimated at $130,699 and a competitive ITB for 100 commercial-grade recliners estimated at $130,999. Chatham County, Georgia has solicited fire-station furniture across multiple locations, combining operational (beds, mattresses, lockers) and common-area pieces (recliners, dining furniture, office chairs).

Geographic activity centers on the Southeast—Georgia (Cobb, Columbia, Chatham counties), Florida (Hillsborough, Broward), and Tennessee (LEAD Public Schools in Nashville)—with secondary activity in Arizona (City of Phoenix, five-year fire-station furniture term commencing November 2026) and Virginia (Christopher Newport University, Welcome Center furnishings). Region 7 Purchasing Cooperative (Texas) maintains a significant recurring channel through its Catalog Discount Bid CLSF2628, with an estimated total expenditure of $21,568,516 across a two-year term (June 2026–June 2028) and 62 prior award holders, indicating a mature, competitive vendor base. LEAD Public Schools in Nashville (RFP due November 9, 2026, mandatory pre-proposal conference October 22 at 2:00 p.m. CST virtual) is pursuing an accelerated delivery-and-installation window (July 19–August 2, 2027) for a new elementary school, with preference weighted heavily on logistics capability and school-year readiness over price (20 of 100 evaluation points). Sourcewell cooperative procurement for Law Enforcement Equipment (RFP #061626, due June 16, 2026) represents broader access across thousands of public entities, though the available documentation does not detail furniture-specific scope within that law-enforcement umbrella.