NIGP 97546: Material Handling Equipment and Allied Item Rental or Lease

NIGP 97546 Material Handling Equipment and Allied Item Rental or Lease, an Item code, encompasses rental and lease services for forklifts, pallet jacks, aerial and towable lifts, telehandlers, light towers, generators, HVAC units, trash pumps, roll-off dumpsters, portable toilets, and related material-handling and emergency-support equipment. State and local governments procure these services on as-needed, contingency, and long-term agreement bases across public works, utilities, corrections, emergency management, municipal operations, and facilities maintenance. Issuing bodies span state departments (Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts on behalf of the Texas Division of Emergency Management, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Texas Department of Criminal Justice), counties (Orange County Transportation Authority), cities (City of Fort Worth, City of Atlanta, City of Urbana), housing authorities (Housing Authority of the City of Alameda), school districts (San Antonio Independent School District), and special-purpose agencies (Illinois Tollway). The Texas Division of Emergency Management and San Antonio Independent School District appear as repeat buyers in recent cycles.

Recent solicitations reflect a mix of equipment categories and contract structures. The Texas Comptroller is procuring emergency ground support equipment rental across the state's eight disaster regions—forklifts (minimum 50 units), pallet jacks (50), light towers (50), trash pumps (25), generators (25), HVAC units (5), roll-off dumpsters (50), portable toilets (100), and shower facilities (25)—with responses due October 29, 2026, under RFP 304T27975M42, and mandatory VetHUB subcontracting plan with a 2.0 percent service-disabled veteran utilization goal. The City of Fort Worth released RFQ 260324 for equipment rental on an as-needed basis (aerial lifts, forklifts, telehandlers, track loaders) with proposals due October 15, 2026, and a mandatory 30 percent small business participation goal. The Housing Authority of the City of Alameda issued RFP 2026RFP701ROOFTOPHVACAHAHD010 for five rooftop HVAC package unit replacements with proposals due October 28, 2026. The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation solicited maintenance, inspection, and repair services for forklifts, pallet jacks, and related equipment at two prison facilities under IFB C5613623-D (bids due September 28, 2026) with a minimum 25 percent small business participation requirement. San Antonio Independent School District has issued multiple rolling RFPs for general maintenance services, parts, repairs, supplies, and equipment on a continuous, open-ended basis with proposals arriving throughout 2026 on non-guaranteed, as-needed terms contingent on district funding. Geographic activity concentrates in Texas (state procurement division, Fort Worth, San Antonio, TDCJ, GLO), California (CDCR, Orange County Transportation Authority), and Illinois (Tollway, Urbana), with scattered activity in Utah and Alabama.