NIGP 56055: Tow, Battery Powered

NIGP 56055 Tow, Battery Powered is an Item code covering towing and roadside assistance vehicles and equipment. State and local governments soliciting under this code are purchasing tow trucks, trailers, and associated towing services — including both the vehicles themselves and the operational services those vehicles enable. The Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) is currently soliciting freeway service patrol towing operations across nine service areas in Orange County, California, requiring crew-cab service-body tow trucks to provide tire changes, fuel delivery, jump-starts, and towing to designated drop zones; Middlesex College in New Jersey posted a solicitation for a specific drop-deck trailer model. The issuing bodies span transportation authorities, colleges, and likely county and municipal fleet operations, though the recent-opportunities block contains only these two examples.

The geographic spread represented in current activity includes California and New Jersey. The OCTA freeway service patrol RFP, due October 27, 2026, is the larger and more operationally complex of the two recent solicitations, structured as a firm-fixed Vehicle Service Hour rate contract with monthly fuel-price adjustments over a six-year term running October 3, 2027 through October 1, 2033, with a total budget of $54.303124 billion. Eligible contractors must hold a minimum of three years' California towing-business experience, maintain a facility within proximity to assigned service areas, and hold current certifications in drug and alcohol testing and electronic logging devices; new contractors are limited to one service area initially. The Middlesex College procurement is a simpler equipment acquisition — a specific manufacturer-model trailer (AIR-TOW UT14-10 drop deck) with a due date of September 29, 2026 — typical of routine fleet acquisition activity.