NIGP 88596: Recycled Water and Wastewater Treating Chemicals

NIGP 88596 Recycled Water and Wastewater Treating Chemicals, an Item code, covers the supply and delivery of specialized chemicals used in municipal water treatment, wastewater treatment, and recycled water facilities. State and local governments procure these chemicals as consumables for process control, disinfection, coagulation, pH adjustment, dewatering, and corrosion inhibition across drinking water plants, wastewater treatment plants, water reclamation facilities, and biosolids handling operations. Counties, cities, and special-purpose water authorities dominate recent solicitation activity. Collier County Board of County Commissioners and City of Waco appear as repeat buyers, with Collier issuing a four-year countywide chemicals contract (estimated $4 million annually) and Waco posting more than a dozen separate RFBs in recent months covering individual chemical categories for municipal treatment facilities. Cities and water authorities from across Florida, Georgia, and Texas comprise the geographic core of recent opportunities, with isolated activity in California, Connecticut, Mississippi, and Massachusetts.

Collier County Procurement Services Division issued ITB 268705 on November 13, 2026, requesting bids on 29 chemical line items (ammonia, chlorine, sulfuric acid, sodium hydroxide, polymers, sodium hypochlorite, flocculants) for three water treatment plants and two regional wastewater plants across the county, with annual volumes ranging from 3,000 to 8,000,000 pounds and a local-vendor preference available under county ordinance. City of Waco issued multiple RFBs in July and August 2026 for liquid chlorine, sodium hydroxide, liquid sulfur dioxide, cationic dewatering polymers, liquid aluminum sulfate, polyaluminum chloride, and liquid oxygen—each notice separately awardable and structured as per-unit or per-volume pricing on an F.O.B. destination basis. City of DeLand issued ITB B2618 on September 15, 2026, for flocculant polymers, liquid chlorine, and poly/orthophosphate for its Water Reclamation Facility, with NSF/ANSI certification and 96-hour delivery requirements. Hillsborough County Public Schools issued ITB 26311A for water and wastewater laboratory testing services across 32 line items, with small business encouragement and drug-free workplace preferences. City of Cartersville Water Department and City of LaGrange sought bids on aluminum sulfate, liquid lime slurry, chlorine, sodium hypochlorite, and sodium bisulfite delivered to operating drinking water and wastewater treatment plants. All recent solicitations mandate NSF 60/AWWA standards compliance, require Safety Data Sheets, impose tight delivery windows (24 to 96 hours), and often award individual line items to different vendors rather than consolidate awards.