NIGP 91557: Mailing/Postage and Shipping Services, Electronic

NIGP 91557 Mailing/Postage and Shipping Services, Electronic is an Item code under which state and local governments procure courier operations, mail sorting and pre-processing, bill printing and mailing, postage metering, and electronic mail delivery services. Recent solicitations show counties, cities, and special districts buying daily interoffice and USPS courier pickup and delivery; high-volume mail receipt screening, sorting, and scanning with optical character recognition capabilities; property tax and utility bill printing, inserting, and mailing at scale (220,000 to 480,000 pieces annually); and electronic postage metering equipment leasing. The issuing-body mix spans county governments (San Mateo County, Fulton County, Harris County), city departments (Louisville Metro Government), state health and revenue departments (New Jersey Department of the Treasury Division of Purchase and Property, Michigan Department of Health and Human Services), community college districts (Collin County Community College District), transit authorities (Orange County Transportation Authority), and university operations (Texas A&M AgriLife). New Jersey has issued a Small Business Set-Aside for Subcontracting Only for front-end mail receipt and pre-processing services; Fulton County and San Mateo County offer local business preferences. The solicitation mix includes RFPs, RFQs (quoted format), ITBs, and Notices of Intent to Negotiate, with response dates ranging from mid-2026 through December 2026.

Geographic activity spans the West Coast (California counties), Southeast (Georgia, Florida), Texas, Michigan, New Jersey, and the upper Midwest. Representative recent opportunities include Louisville Metro Government RFP 270067 for mail courier services (due October 26, 2026); New Jersey Department of the Treasury Bid 26DPP01302 for front-end mail receipt and pre-processing services supporting 7 million mail receipts and 5 million checks annually processed at a facility within 20 miles of Trenton, with a three-year base term and two optional one-year extensions (quotes due December 16, 2026); San Mateo County Treasurer-Tax Collector RFP 1511025001 for tax bill printing and mailing for approximately 220,000 annual property tax documents across three years beginning April 27, 2026 (with local and small-business preferences applied); Fulton County, Georgia RFP 26RFP1617363C-MH for monthly utility bill printing, inserting, and mailing of 480,000 bills annually plus e-billing, with a five percent local preference and service-disabled veteran preference (proposals due July 28, 2026); and Collin County Community College District ITB FY2025ITB035 for newsletter mailings of 300,000 to 500,000 pieces across a three-year term (bids due August 25, 2025). A Florida county RFI issued June 23, 2026, examined sole-source designation for Pitney Bowes Inc. postage metering and sorting services.