NIGP 70071: Paper and Film Shredders

NIGP 70071 Paper and Film Shredders, an Item code, encompasses secure on-site and off-site document shredding and destruction services that state and local governments procure on both recurring and as-needed bases. Recent solicitations show state and local buyers are acquiring scheduled shredding services priced per container or monthly, one-time purge and bulk destruction work, and secure media destruction, with vendors typically responsible for transportation, environmental compliance, and detailed fee disclosure. Issuing bodies include state judicial agencies, county and municipal courts, school districts, charter schools, and multi-district cooperative purchasing consortiums. The mix reflects both single-jurisdiction procurements and statewide or regional cooperative contracts designed to aggregate purchasing power across multiple education service centers or school corporations.

Maryland's Administrative Office of the Courts issued an Invitation for Bids (IFB K27003225, due October 30, 2026) on behalf of the District Court of Maryland to provide secure shredding services statewide across all twenty-three counties and the City of Baltimore on an as-needed basis. More substantially, the Educational Community Purchasing Alliance (ECPA), a collaborative of eight Indiana education service centers, posted a competitive sealed proposal solicitation (ECPA92526, due October 23, 2026) to establish a three-year statewide cooperative contract for secure shredding and document destruction serving K-12 public school corporations, charter schools, and private schools throughout Indiana. The ECPA solicitation allows bidders to propose regional (Northern, Central, or Southern Indiana) or statewide service structures, requires pricing disclosure across recurring monthly or per-container service, one-time purges with per-box/pound/cart/pallet/hourly options, and all ancillary fees, and allocates evaluation weight as 40 points to pricing, 20 to security and destruction procedures, 15 to implementation and customer service, and 10 each to service coverage and vendor reliability. Indiana and Maryland have shown recent procurement activity under the code.