NIGP 61562: Pads and Tablets: Analysis, Columnar, Figure, Memo, Note, Ruled, Post-It Notes, Telephone Message, etc.

NIGP Item 61562 — Pads and Tablets: Analysis, Columnar, Figure, Memo, Note, Ruled, Post-It Notes, Telephone Message, Etc. — covers sticky notes, memo pads, and notepads that state and local governments procure for classroom use, office operations, and promotional programs. School districts dominate recent activity under this code, bidding for classroom supplies including composition books, index cards, and sticky note pads alongside broader instructional-supply bundles. Transit authorities also source promotional memo-pad sticky notes and imprinted notepads for rider-engagement programs. Issuing bodies place orders ranging from modest quantities (single units for specialty items) to high-volume needs (6,000+ cases of paper products in school district bulk purchases), and most solicitations bundle notepads and pads with writing instruments, paper stock, and adhesives under single IFB or ITQ notices. Pricing requirements typically lock vendors into guaranteed rates across seven-month contract terms in school-district procurements.

Washington County School District in Georgia posted IFB 1-26060-2701 on May 28, 2026 with a bid due date of June 22, 2026, requesting instructional and paper supplies including composition books, index cards, and sticky note pads alongside crayons, colored pencils, copy paper, and classroom tools; the contract runs through January 18, 2027 and references Crayola, Elmer's, Sharpie, and 3M brand specifications. The Agency for Community Transit (ACT), a division of the Madison County Mass Transit District in Illinois, posted ITQ22600056 on March 24, 2026 with a bid due date of March 31, 2026 for promotional items including 2,500 memo-pad sticky notes imprinted with the RideFinders logo and website, with delivery required by April 23, 2026 to Pontoon Beach, Illinois. Recent activity appears concentrated in the upper Midwest and Southeast, though the source material supports only these two documented opportunities.