NIGP 48586: Soap, Hand: Bar, Liquid, and Powdered

NIGP Item 48586 Soap, Hand: Bar, Liquid, And Powdered covers hand soap products in bar, liquid, and powdered form that state and local governments procure for operational use across facilities including fire stations, schools, county offices, and municipal buildings. State and local buyers source soap through direct commodity purchases and bundled janitorial-supply contracts that include soap alongside detergents, disinfectants, paper products, and cleaning equipment. Issuing bodies span county commissioners, city purchasing departments, county school districts, and cooperative purchasing vehicles; Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners, Madison County Board of Education in Georgia, Muscogee County School District in Georgia, Jackson County Missouri, and Region 7 Purchasing Cooperative in Texas appear as repeat or representative buyers. Contract structures typically run 12 months with optional annual renewals, require new and unused products in original packaging from authorized distributors, mandate firm pricing with no fuel surcharges, and include delivery to multiple locations on an as-needed basis.

Recent activity under the code spans Florida, Georgia, Missouri, Connecticut, Ohio, and Texas. The Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners posted ITB 26-00319 on July 7, 2026, for consumable janitorial and operational supplies (due July 24, 2026) with an estimated contract value of $765,679.84 for delivery to 47 fire stations; hand soap appears as one line item within the broader supplies scope. Madison County Board of Education in Georgia posted RFP CSUP 05-26 on May 4, 2026 (due June 2, 2026) seeking foam hand soap with dispensers and hand sanitizer for eight school facilities. The City of Tampa Purchasing Department posted RFQ 26-P-00128 on February 25, 2026 (due February 16, 2026) for 384 units of antibacterial foamy soap with named equivalents (HILL #3857 or KUTOL #21378), and the Ohio Department of Administrative Services posted a solicitation for antibacterial liquid soap in June 2026. Region 7 Purchasing Cooperative in Texas manages a custodial supplies catalog discount contract with estimated annual expenditures of $5,220,140 across member school districts, where hand soap procurement flows through cooperative pricing agreements.