NIGP 64618: Boards: Poster, Pressboard, Railroad, etc. (Including Recycled), Environmentally Certified Products

NIGP 64618 Boards: Poster, Pressboard, Railroad, Etc. (Including Recycled), Environmentally Certified Products is an Item code under which state and local governments procure poster board, pressboard, and specialty boards for classroom, office, and operational use. Based on recent solicitation activity, the code captures a broader scope than its title suggests — school districts and cooperative purchasing agencies are buying poster board in multiple colors, butcher paper rolls, construction paper, drawing paper, sketch books, chart tablets, and composition books alongside core board products, indicating that state and local buyers use this code for a range of paper and board commodities supporting educational and administrative functions. Issuing bodies under this code include school district cooperatives and individual school systems; the most visible recent buyer is the Cooperative Purchasing Agency (CPA), a non-profit warehouse serving 35 Georgia school systems, which treats poster board and related paper supplies as a bundled procurement category rather than an isolated commodity.

The Cooperative Purchasing Agency's August 2026 solicitation — Bid 2027-005 Paper Supplies, Art & Other, posted August 11, 2026 with a September 16, 2026 response deadline — illustrates the scale and granularity of activity under this code. CPA's IFB spans approximately 100 line items with annual quantities ranging from 5 to 9,000 units per item, F.O.B. destination to its Cleveland, Georgia warehouse, with a January 1 through December 31, 2027 contract term and 30-day delivery windows. The solicitation requires firm pricing in two decimal places, vendor references for new suppliers, and explicit minimum order thresholds by item as a determining award factor. Recent activity under this code concentrates in Georgia, where cooperative purchasing models dominate school-supply procurement.