NIGP 48579: Dispensing Equipment, Chemical, Automatic

NIGP 48579 Dispensing Equipment, Chemical, Automatic is an Item code under which state and local governments procure custodial and chemical-dispensing supplies and equipment for school districts, healthcare systems, and educational cooperatives. Recent solicitations reveal that governments buy consumable cleaning chemicals, detergents, disinfectants, foam hand soap with dispensers, hand sanitizer with dispensers, paper products, floor care supplies, tools, trash liners, and related custodial equipment—often bundled into multiline competitive bids organized by supply category. School districts dominate the issuing-body mix, with independent school districts in Texas (Northside ISD in San Antonio, Klein ISD in Harris County, Muscogee County School District in Georgia, and Madison County Board of Education in Georgia) posting the most recent activity; regional purchasing cooperatives also solicit on behalf of member districts across entire states. Healthcare systems participate selectively, with Harris Health System (Harris County, Texas) recently procuring an automated pharmacy dispensing system for centralized medication distribution.

Geographic activity clusters in Texas and Georgia, with recent solicitations posted from May through March 2026. Representative opportunities include Northside ISD's RFP 2026-071 for custodial supplies (due June 4, 2026), Madison County Schools' RFP CSUP 05-26 for eight-facility custodial resupply (due June 2, 2026), and Muscogee County School District's IFB 26-022 for 104 line items of cleaning chemicals, paper products, floor care supplies, tools, and can liners across district locations (due May 22, 2026). Region 7 Purchasing Cooperative in Texas issued a catalog-discount custodial supplies RFP (CUS2223) with estimated total expenditures of $5,220,140 across member entities. Evaluation criteria typically weight vendor qualifications, relevant experience, past performance, references, financial responsibility, and cost equally or near-equally; pricing must remain firm for 12 months, and vendors must carry general liability insurance ($500,000 to $1,000,000 per occurrence) and comply with E-Verify and state-specific procurement rules.