NIGP 83887: Telemedical Equipment

NIGP 83887 Telemedical Equipment is an Item code that state and local governments use to classify procurement of remote diagnostic and treatment technologies, though recent solicitation activity under this code appears minimal. The two most recent opportunities attributed to this code—a Sourcewell cooperative law enforcement equipment RFP and a Collier County pharmacy benefit management services RFP—do not represent telemedical equipment purchases in the traditional sense; the law enforcement equipment solicitation likely encompasses communications and field diagnostic tools, while the pharmacy benefit management services solicitation addresses administrative health plan management rather than clinical telemedical infrastructure. State and local buyers soliciting under this code include state service cooperatives (Sourcewell operating on behalf of Minnesota and participating Washington counties), county commissioners' offices managing health benefits and human resources functions, and the broad network of participating entities leveraging cooperative purchasing vehicles. Set-asides and preferences vary by issuing body; Collier County's RFP allows local vendor preference consideration for vendors with physical business addresses within Collier County, and both opportunities welcome MBE certification claims as evaluation factors.

Activity under NIGP 83887 appears concentrated in the Upper Midwest and Southeast, with recent solicitations posted by Sourcewell (May 2026) and Collier County, Florida (April 2026). Sourcewell's RFP #061626 for Law Enforcement Equipment, posted May 12, 2026 with a June 16, 2026 response deadline, targets thousands of governmental agencies, K-12 school districts, nonprofit organizations, and tribal governments across the United States and Canada through the Sourcewell Procurement Portal. Collier County's RFP 25-8414 for Pharmacy Benefit Management Services, posted April 9, 2026 with an April 9, 2026 response deadline, was structured to cover approximately 2,400 county employees and 4,800 covered members with an initial three-year term effective January 1, 2026, historical annual pharmacy spending of approximately $8.7 million, and cooperative purchasing provisions allowing other tax-funded agencies to use the resulting contract. Neither solicitation explicitly identifies telemedical equipment or remote diagnostic technology as a primary procurement focus, suggesting the code may see limited recent state and local activity or that buyers are routing telehealth infrastructure purchases through other commodity classifications.