NIGP 01942: Fruits, Deciduous Tree

NIGP 01942 Fruits, Deciduous Tree is an Item code under which state and local governments procure native deciduous and semi-tropical trees for landscaping, park development, rights-of-way restoration, and public infrastructure projects. Recent solicitations show purchasing of bare-root seedlings, caliper trees, and specimen plantings (Live Oak, White Oak, Red Oak, Hickory, Black Olive, Buttonwood, Magnolia, and native palms) combined with site preparation, installation, and post-planting maintenance services. Counties and municipalities are the primary issuing bodies, with parks and recreation departments and public works divisions driving procurement. Collier County and the City of Little Rock both solicited tree plantings in 2026; the City of Palm Bay likewise issued an ITB for native Live Oak trees. Work typically requires contractor licensing, minimum horticultural or invasive species removal experience (three to five years), current insurance (general liability and workers' compensation), and compliance with state nursery standards and horticultural grades.

Activity clusters in Florida and Arkansas. Collier County issued RFQ QQ2026148 on September 28, 2026, seeking furnishing and installation of mixed-species trees and palms (Black Olive, Buttonwood, Live Oak, Magnolia, Foxtail Palms, and Pygmy Date Palms) in Pelican Bay rights-of-way on a unit-price basis with 90-day warranty and a 180-day price-hold requirement; Addendum #2 Revision was posted September 24, 2026. The City of Palm Bay, Florida issued ITB 39ITB26 on May 14, 2026, with response due June 2, 2026, for purchase and installation of four six-inch native Live Oak trees. The City of Little Rock Parks and Recreation Department issued ITB 235927 on May 13, 2026, with bids due June 10, 2026, for planting approximately 7,550 mixed-species bare-root native seedlings and semi-mature caliper trees across Reservoir and Murray Park, including mandatory site preparation, invasive species removal, and one-year post-planting maintenance with a 90 percent survival-rate performance requirement; this project is federally funded under the Inflation Reduction Act's Climate Pollution Reduction Grants program and subject to Davis-Bacon prevailing wage and disadvantaged business enterprise set-asides.