NIGP 79560: Pattern Paper

NIGP 79560 Pattern Paper, an Item code, covers template and pattern materials used in manufacturing, construction, and design work — the source provides no recent state or local procurement opportunities under this code. The absence of active solicitation records makes it difficult to characterize current buying patterns, issuing-body activity, or geographic concentration. Pattern paper remains a niche commodity within state and local procurement, and no representative recent opportunities are available to ground a detailed market assessment.

Without posted RFP, RFQ, IFB, or ITB records in the current procurement cycle, business development activity in this code should focus on prospecting existing relationships with state departments of transportation, facilities management offices, and technical schools that may use pattern materials in operational or instructional contexts. Monitor state purchasing cooperatives and cooperative purchasing vehicles for any bundled commodity buys that might include pattern paper as a subordinate line item.