NIGP 67525: Defoliants, Cotton

NIGP 67525 Defoliants, Cotton is an Item code that covers herbicides and related vegetation-management products state and local governments procure for roadway, forestry, nursery, and landscape maintenance. State and local agencies soliciting under this code include state departments of transportation and enterprise services, counties, municipalities, and special districts managing rights-of-way and public lands. The scope includes liquid and dry herbicides, aquatic herbicides, adjuvants, surfactants, and ornamental products used across highways, city streets, forestry areas, and public nurseries. Issuing bodies vary from large state-level cooperative procurement vehicles to individual county and municipal departments of transportation and parks.

Washington State Department of Enterprise Services posted a statewide vegetation-management cooperative RFP (solicitation 12225RFP, due August 20, 2026) establishing a multi-award contract vehicle for liquid and dry herbicides, aquatic herbicides, adjuvants, surfactants, and ornamental products for state agencies, municipalities, counties, and special districts. Historical annual spending ranged from $914,419 to $3.87 million, with four-year cumulative spending of approximately $7.77 million; primary purchasers were state agencies (45.33%), counties (45.11%), and special districts (9.64%). The solicitation organizes bids into three categories, awards up to four Main Awards and one Reserved Award per category, and applies a five percent cost reduction for PCB-free products certified by independent third-party laboratory. Texas Department of Criminal Justice posted pesticides solicitation IW263744 (due October 15, 2026) with limited scope information available. Recent activity concentrates in Washington and Texas; the Washington vehicle surfaces the strongest current opportunity given its multi-year, multi-award structure and the scale of historical spending across state and local purchasers.