NIGP 47565: Pads, Sterile, Impregnated (for Topical Applications)

NIGP 47565 Pads, Sterile, Impregnated (For Topical Applications), an Item code, encompasses wound care and medical topical-application products that state and local governments procure through both individual agency contracts and cooperative-purchasing vehicles. State and local buyers—including health departments, transit authorities, corrections agencies, school districts, and multi-state cooperative alliances—source sterile impregnated pads as component consumables within broader medical-supply portfolios rather than as standalone line items. The code sits within larger medical-supply master-agreement frameworks where pricing leverage derives from collective volume purchasing across hundreds or thousands of member entities.

The most-recent opportunities reflect cooperative-purchasing vehicles as the dominant procurement channel for this commodity. The Minnesota Multigovernmental Cooperative Purchasing Alliance (MMCAP) issued RFP 37259 for full-line medical supplies (proposals due July 20, 2026) seeking distributors serving approximately 8,000 government members with $300 million in collective annual medical-supply purchasing power; wound care products were explicitly listed among required catalog categories. NASPO ValuePoint posted master-agreement RFP 1433 for medical supplies (proposals due November 9, 2026 at 5:00 p.m. Mountain Time), administered by South Dakota and open to state and local entities nationwide. These cooperative vehicles dominate signaling over direct single-agency procurements. The Washington State Department of Transportation's ferry division issued an occupational medical surveillance RFP (due October 9, 2026), but that solicitation addresses clinical services rather than sterile pad procurement. Recent activity centers on the upper Midwest and Pacific Northwest, with multistate cooperative frameworks extending nationwide. Vendors pursuing this code should target master-agreement and cooperative-purchasing RFPs where sterile impregnated pads appear within comprehensive wound-care or full-line medical-supply catalogs, rather than standalone commodity ITBs.