NIGP 06505: Aerial Ladders and Towers (Including Buckets for Personnel)

NIGP 06505 Aerial Ladders and Towers (Including Buckets for Personnel), an Item code, encompasses truck-mounted and standalone aerial lift equipment—including telescoping booms, articulating devices, bucket platforms, and related platform and crane components—that state and local governments procure for utility maintenance, forestry operations, bridge inspection, and public works access work. Recent solicitations show state departments of transportation, public works departments, and specialized agencies purchasing complete aerial device assemblies, replacement buckets and platforms, and associated material-handling systems for equipment already in service.

State transportation departments represent the dominant buyer category, with the Texas Department of Transportation issuing multiple large-volume solicitations for truck-mounted telescoping aerial devices with articulating booms (both 40-foot and 52-foot units bundled with utility bodies, cranes, and material-handling systems in the September 2026 emergency purchase exceeding $1 million, and a follow-on solicitation in October 2026). The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Florida Forest Service procured a single Genie S-85 HF Telescopic Boom Lift for forestry harvesting operations; Wicomico County, Maryland; the City of Springfield, Massachusetts; the Minnesota Department of Transportation; and the California Department of Transportation, Division of Equipment rounded out recent issuing bodies. Geographic activity concentrates in Texas, Florida, and the Mid-Atlantic and Midwest states. Representative recent opportunities include Texas DOT's October 23, 2026 IFB for truck body and aerial device assemblies (Solicitation 601440000053880) through the TxDOT Procurement Portal, the City of Springfield's November 3, 2026 price-agreement RFQ for Lift-A-Loft Aerial Equipment Parts and Service with an estimated annual value not to exceed $150,000 (Bid 27-055), the Florida Forest Service's September 28, 2026 ITB for one Genie S-85 HF Telescopic Boom Lift with delivery by June 30, 2027 (ITB FFS 26 27 44), and Minnesota DOT's July 23, 2026 RFB for a Step Through Bucket replacement on an Altec AT30 aerial lift (Event 2000018499).