NIGP 51559: Pads, Kneeling, Lawn and Garden

NIGP 51559 Pads, Kneeling, Lawn And Garden is an Item code covering grounds maintenance supplies and equipment that state and local governments procure as components of broader facility operations and landscape management contracts. Recent solicitations show this code intersects with larger grounds-equipment and facility-maintenance procurements where pads, kneeling mats, and related lawn-garden supplies appear as line items within comprehensive bids for turf care, grounds upkeep, and landscape operations. Issuing bodies include county community college districts, county boards of commissioners, school districts, transportation authorities, and state facility departments—a mix spanning higher education, county parks and recreation, K–12 operations, and transit infrastructure. The work is geographically dispersed across multiple states, with recent activity in Texas, Georgia, and Florida, alongside cooperative purchasing vehicles like Sourcewell that aggregate demand across multi-state jurisdictions.

Representative recent opportunities illustrate the embedded-supply pattern under this code. Collin County Community College District issued ITB FY2024ITB037 on June 18, 2024, for Grounds Equipment, Parts, and Supplies to support ten campuses, with a three-year term and an estimated annual expenditure of $48,000; the bid included 41 line items spanning hand-held equipment, tractors, mowers, and landscape products, with bids due July 10, 2024. Donna Independent School District in Cameron County, Texas, posted RFP 011326-892 on March 21, 2026, seeking catalog discount bids for lawn equipment and supplies including mowers, trimmers, and grounds-maintenance tools for the 2026–2027 school year, with proposals due April 8, 2026. The White County Board of Commissioners in Georgia issued RFP PE77037NONST2026000000022 on March 5, 2026, for Chemical Application Services at parks facilities, with sealed proposals due April 2, 2026, encompassing seasonal turf treatments and grounds care. These solicitations are predominantly multi-vendor, catalog-discount, or line-item-based procurements where pads and kneeling supplies compete alongside larger grounds-maintenance categories rather than standalone specialty buys.