NIGP 48510: Brooms, Brushes, and Handles

NIGP 48510 Brooms, Brushes, And Handles, an Item code, covers custodial and janitorial equipment and supplies that state and local governments buy for ongoing facility maintenance and cleaning operations. The scope encompasses consumable and durable cleaning equipment—including brooms, mops, dust mops, brushes, mop buckets, trash cans, and related items—purchased as stock inventory or under as-needed supply contracts by school districts, county facilities, transportation departments, and municipal agencies. Recent solicitations reveal that state and local buyers typically bundle brooms, brushes, and handles within broader custodial-supply RFPs alongside complementary items such as trash bags, disinfectants, floor finishes, paper products, and hand-sanitizer dispensers; standalone procurement of brooms and brushes alone is less common than acquisition as part of integrated facility-maintenance packages.

Issuing bodies span school districts, county governments, state departments, and special-purpose purchasing cooperatives. School districts dominate recent activity—Cobb County School District (Georgia), Madison County Board of Education (Georgia), Northside Independent School District (Texas), and Anaheim City School District (California)—along with county purchasing offices and state transportation departments (California Department of Transportation). The Cooperative Purchasing Agency (CPA) in Georgia, which aggregates buying for 35 school systems, also solicits custodial supplies including brooms and mops. Geographic spread is concentrated in California, Georgia, Texas, and Florida, with recent opportunities posted by Caltrans (Alameda and San Diego counties), Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners (Florida), and multiple school districts across the Southeast and Southwest. Representative recent opportunities include the Cobb County School District's ITB for custodial equipment (estimated $550,000, bids due September 23, 2026), the Cooperative Purchasing Agency's 2027-001 custodial stock supplies bid covering approximately 60 line items including brooms and mops for delivery to its Cleveland, Georgia warehouse (bids due September 30, 2026), and Northside Independent School District's RFP 2026-071 for custodial supplies in San Antonio (bids due June 4, 2026). School districts typically structure these as firm-price, multi-year renewable contracts with F.O.B. Destination delivery terms and no minimum purchase guarantees.