NIGP 49530: Botany Specimens

NIGP 49530 Botany Specimens is an Item code under which state and local governments procure preserved plant materials, seeds, herbarium specimens, and botanical samples for educational, research, and horticultural purposes. The code encompasses dried plant collections, live plant stock for propagation, seed banks, and reference specimens used in school districts' science curricula, botanical gardens, university research programs, and environmental restoration projects. Purchasing bodies soliciting under this code include school districts acquiring specimens for classroom instruction, state departments of natural resources or agriculture sourcing materials for conservation and research, botanical institutions and arboretums restocking collections, and municipal parks and recreation departments obtaining plant material for landscape and habitat restoration initiatives.

No recent state and local contract opportunities under NIGP 49530 appear in the available procurement record. Activity under this Item code does not surface in the current public solicitation environment.