NIGP 62094: Recycled Pens and Pencils

NIGP 62094 Recycled Pens and Pencils, an Item code, covers writing instruments manufactured from recycled materials — a narrow commodity subset that state and local governments procure as part of broader office-supply and sustainability initiatives. The code captures pens and pencils made wholly or partly from post-consumer or post-industrial recycled content, including plastic-bodied ballpoint pens, gel pens, mechanical pencils, and wooden pencils with recycled-paper or composite barrels. State and local issuing bodies — state agencies, counties, municipalities, school districts, and special-purpose districts — source these items to meet green-procurement mandates, support waste-diversion goals, or satisfy vendor-diversity set-asides that favor sustainable or minority-owned suppliers. Purchases are typically small-unit, routine orders placed through office-supply cooperative purchasing vehicles, master agreements, or blanket RFQs rather than standalone solicitations.

The source provided contains no recent state and local contract opportunities under NIGP 62094, making current market-activity assessment impossible from this data. Without posted RFPs, RFQs, ITBs, or IFBs naming specific issuing bodies, response dates, or geographic regions, the code appears to lack visible procurement momentum in the sourced opportunity stream. This reflects the commodity's nature — recycled writing instruments are typically purchased through existing supply contracts or cooperative agreements rather than triggered by individual public solicitations.