NIGP 610: Office Supplies: Carbon Paper and Ribbons, All Types

NIGP 610 Office Supplies: Carbon Paper and Ribbons, All Types is a Class code covering printed consumables, specialty papers, and related supplies that state and local governments procure for administrative operations, print shops, and facility management. Recent solicitations show that buying under this code spans bank deposit tickets with MICR encoding, general office supplies through desktop delivery, specialty papers for in-house print shops, and Zebra printer ribbons and batteries. State and local issuing bodies soliciting under this code include state agencies (Illinois Secretary of State), county government (Cobb County School District in Georgia), cities (District of Columbia Department of Finance and Services, City of Lompoc in California), and school districts (Parkway School District). The Illinois Secretary of State's October 2026 RFQ for customized bank deposit tickets—75,600 tickets over two years for 82 facilities, each with unique MICR encoding, account numbers, and routing information, with prevailing wage requirements and FOB destination delivery—illustrates the specialized printing work emerging under this code.

Geographic activity under the code spans multiple states including Illinois, Georgia, California, Florida, Kentucky, Texas, and the District of Columbia, with recent opportunities concentrated in the Southeast and Southwest. Representative recent solicitations include the Illinois Secretary of State's printing RFQ due October 23, 2026, for bank deposit ticket booklets; Cobb County School District's RFQ (due November 4, 2026) for comprehensive office supplies with approximately $2 million annual expenditure; the City of Lompoc's RFQ for 42 distinct office supply items including pens, notepads, folders, and binders (due October 24, 2025); and Parkway School District's bid for specialty paper for in-house print-shop operations (due June 24, 2026). The District of Columbia Department of Finance and Services issued two separate bids in mid-2026—one for an office supplies contract (RK314107, due July 1, 2026) and a second for Zebra printer ribbons and batteries (RK331126, due September 21, 2026). Activity under this code reflects steady municipal and county procurement of commodity office supplies alongside specialized printing services and printer consumables, though individual solicitation values and contract terms vary significantly by issuing body.