NIGP 86520: Cotton Twine

NIGP 86520 Cotton Twine, an Item code, encompasses cordage and binding materials that state and local governments procure for operations across law enforcement, maintenance, facilities, and general municipal services. The code captures twine used in evidence handling, property bundling, equipment securing, and routine operational tasks where low-cost cordage serves functional rather than specialized purposes. Issuing bodies under this code span county sheriffs' departments, city police and public works divisions, school districts, transit authorities, and state equipment cooperatives that aggregate demand across multiple jurisdictions to achieve volume pricing and standardized supplier relationships.

Recent activity shows Sourcewell, a Minnesota-based cooperative purchasing vehicle, issuing RFP #061626 on behalf of its participating entities — including Franklin County, Grant County, Grays Harbor County, Chelan County, and Yakima County in Washington, plus numerous other jurisdictions nationwide and in Canada — to establish a framework for law enforcement equipment with response deadline June 16, 2026. The solicitation structure routes vendors through the Sourcewell Procurement Portal and extends contracting access to thousands of governmental agencies, K-12 school districts, tribal governments, and nonprofit organizations. The cooperative model signals that cotton twine and related law enforcement operational supplies typically move through multi-jurisdiction purchasing vehicles rather than single-agency RFQs, allowing selected vendors to serve a distributed customer base under uniform terms. No award value, set-aside designations, or incumbent vendor information appears in the available documentation.