NIGP 54050: Particleboard, All Types

NIGP 54050 Particleboard, All Types is an Item code under which state and local governments procure fiberboard and composite board products for operational and manufacturing use. Recent solicitations show actual purchasing focused on fabricated fiberboard containers and related board products — fiberboard boxes, cut corner protectors, patty boxes, and cremation boxes — rather than raw particleboard stock. Issuing bodies span correctional facilities manufacturing operations, law enforcement procurement cooperatives, and other state agencies. Maryland Correctional Enterprises has been a recent buyer, soliciting finished fiberboard containers for delivery to multiple correctional facilities in Hagerstown under a competitive sealed-bid process.

Maryland and the upper Midwest represent the geographic center of recent activity. Maryland Correctional Enterprises issued IFB BPM057710 for fiberboard containers with delivery required to three facilities at Hagerstown, due July 8, 2026 (the posting showing a deadline that had passed). Sourcewell, operating as Minnesota's cooperative purchasing vehicle under Washington state law, issued RFP #061626 on June 16, 2026, to establish a law enforcement equipment contracting solution available to Franklin County, Grant County, Grays Harbor County, Chelan County, Yakima County, and numerous other jurisdictions throughout the United States and Canada. The Sourcewell solicitation does not break out particleboard or board-product line items explicitly; bidders should review full solicitation documents through the Sourcewell Procurement Portal to confirm scope. Maryland certifications (SBE, MBE, VSBE) were flagged in the correctional procurement; responses must include proof of current certification numbers and expiration dates where applicable.