NIGP 98439: Drives, Rental or Lease: Cdrom, Hard, Floppy and Tape

NIGP 98439 Drives, Rental Or Lease: CDROM, Hard, Floppy And Tape is an Item code representing data storage media and drive rental or lease services procured by state and local governments. Recent state-level activity shows this code sits within a broader end-user IT outsourcing and asset management ecosystem where storage infrastructure — particularly tape drives and server rental — forms part of integrated IT service delivery. State governments and their eligible public entities (counties, cities, institutions of higher education, special-purpose districts) use this code to lease or rent storage equipment as components of larger desktop management, data management, and facility support contracts rather than as standalone commodities. The Texas Department of Information Resources cooperative contract COOP2026SOL-00009 illustrates the modern framing: storage rental appears not as a discrete line item but as a subordinate element within End-User IT Management Services, IT Asset Management, Desktop Outsourcing and Management, and data management service bundles.

Texas is the primary recent jurisdiction posting under this code, with the Texas DIR cooperative contract generating approximately $29.3 million in customer purchases in FY 2025 across all six service categories and serving state agencies, local governments, and higher education. Illinois posted a server and tape rental procurement (SP-IFA-Server and Tape Rentals-2025) through May 28, 2026, indicating continued tape-drive rental demand in the Midwest. The Texas DIR RFP (responses due October 20, 2026) requires respondents to demonstrate IT Asset Management qualifications, accessibility compliance via Accessibility Conformance Reports, and Dun and Bradstreet SER Score certification; the contract carries a two-year base term with optional two-year and one-year renewals and DIR discretion to extend the final renewal by up to twelve months. Administrative costs recover at 0.75% of all customer purchases. Subcontracting plans must demonstrate good-faith recruitment of Texas VetHUB program participants.