Glossary / Classification
NIGP commodity codeNIGP
The NIGP Commodity/Services Code is a classification of products and services maintained by the National Institute of Governmental Purchasing and used by most state, county, city, school district and university purchasing systems in the United States. It has three-digit classes, five-digit items and longer detail levels; vendors choose codes when they register in a state or local portal, and the portal sends bid notices for solicitations tagged with those codes. It is the state and local counterpart of the federal NAICS and PSC codes, though some jurisdictions use UNSPSC instead.
Why it matters to your pipeline
In state and local selling, the NIGP codes a vendor picks at registration decide which bid notices it ever sees. Pick too few and the opportunities never arrive; pick wisely and the portal does part of the search. GovSmith maps a client's business to NIGP codes once and uses them in the state and local sources its Search aggregates.
When this term shows up in an opening GovSmith finds for you, your vCM explains what it means for that pursuit and does whatever it calls for. You decide; we do the work.
Example
A print shop registers in a state portal under NIGP 966 (printing) and 965 (promotional items) and receives forty-one bid notices in its first year, three of which it wins.
Find out what applies to you
Some terms will matter to your business right away and some won’t for years. A vCM can tell you which are which.