NIGP 47080: Wheelchairs (Including Mobile Treatment Chairs)

NIGP 47080 Wheelchairs (Including Mobile Treatment Chairs), an Item code, encompasses powered and manual wheelchairs, specialized track wheelchairs, custom mobility equipment, and related accessories procured by state health and human services agencies, state parks systems, counties, and purchasing cooperatives for clients in state-operated facilities, parks, and community programs. State and local buyers under this code are acquiring both stock catalog wheelchairs through cooperative purchasing arrangements and purpose-built custom equipment with client-specific assessments, fabrication, fitting, and ongoing service support. The issuing bodies are primarily Texas state agencies—the Health and Human Services Commission, Parks and Wildlife Department, and state-operated living centers and schools—alongside regional purchasing cooperatives serving member school districts and special-education programs, and county park and recreation departments such as Orange County, California.

Recent solicitations show activity concentrated in Texas and California. The Texas Health and Human Services Commission issued multiple IFBs for custom wheelchair fabrication, assessment, and maintenance services at state-supported living centers, including HHS0017709 (custom wheelchairs for twenty state-operated facilities, bids due September 11, 2026) and HHS0016711v3 (custom wheelchair evaluation, fabrication, fitting, and parts for Denton State Supported Living Center, historical annual value approximately $150,000). Texas Parks and Wildlife Department State Parks Division solicited five powered track wheelchairs with accessories under two consecutive IFBs (8022781094R, bids due September 2, 2026, and 8022681094, bids due July 16, 2026), emphasizing zero-turn-radius equipment, extended battery range, and delivery without requiring state unloading. Region 7 Purchasing Cooperative (Kilgore, Texas) issued SPE2628, a catalog discount bid for special education and supplies with estimated expenditures of $2,713,541 over two years (bids due October 1, 2026) and prior awards to 99 vendors. Orange County, California procured three TERRAWHEELS BEACH wheelchairs and beach access mats under IFB0123071801EB. The Texas Health and Human Services Commission also solicited master contracts for durable medical equipment and services across eleven DME categories in eleven geographic service regions statewide, including positioning devices and wheelchairs as one line item (RFP HHS0017173, proposals due June 2, 2026, with estimated historical compensation approximately $1,000,000 per state fiscal year and cumulative compensation not to exceed $5,000,000). Most recent opportunities carry Historically Underutilized Business (HUB) set-asides at 21.1 percent utilization.