NIGP 44014: Florentine Glass

NIGP 44014 Florentine Glass, an Item code, covers window glass furnishing and installation services that state and local governments procure for building maintenance, rehabilitation, and construction projects across commercial, industrial, and residential portfolios. The City of Tucson's RFP No. 226043 (due August 18, 2022) exemplifies the scope: an annual requirements contract for labor and materials supporting window glass installation, aluminum wall work, screen installation, and miscellaneous related materials for the Environmental and General Services Department and Housing and Community Development Department. Contractors must stock multiple glass types—single and double strength, obscure, plate, safety, tempered, thermal pane, and plexiglass—and field teams capable of handling high-rise scaffolding and diverse installation scenarios with multiple journeyman glazers. Issuing bodies under this code include municipal departments managing facilities and public housing stock, with the Tucson RFP serving both commercial/industrial and residential housing rehabilitation programs.

The Tucson procurement, funded in part by HUD, illustrates geographic concentration in the Southwest and introduces compliance layers common to state and local glass work: prevailing wage rate requirements (hourly rates ranging from $14.32 to $20.98), Section 3 labor-hour benchmarks (25% total labor hours, 5% targeted workers), and DBE certification provisions. The contract structure is typical for requirements contracts in this code—one-year initial term with up to four one-year extensions, cost estimates guaranteed within 10% actuals, and local presence or third-party maintenance agreements mandated. A pre-submittal conference was scheduled for July 21, 2022, via Microsoft Teams. Beyond the Tucson opportunity, the source provides no additional recent state or local solicitations under this code, limiting visibility into broader geographic or issuing-body activity.