NIGP 67051: Pipe and Utility Markers

NIGP 67051 Pipe and Utility Markers, an Item code, encompasses the supply and installation of physical locating markers, tags, and identification equipment used in underground utility infrastructure projects—though recent state and local solicitations show the code driving activity primarily around underground utility locating services themselves rather than markers as discrete commodities. State and local buyers under this code include county utilities departments, city public works and water/wastewater divisions, and special-purpose water management districts. Recent opportunities reflect two distinct procurement streams: service contracts for comprehensive underground utility locating (ticket management, GPS documentation, damage investigation, emergency response) and supply contracts for industrial pipe, fittings, and related materials used in water main and sewer system replacement projects. Issuing bodies span Pinellas County, Orange County, and Pasco County in Florida; the City of Phoenix; the City of Augusta, Georgia; and smaller municipalities including Plant City, Bartow, and Palm Bay in Florida. Repeat activity is concentrated among Florida's coastal and central counties—Orange, Pinellas, and Pasco counties have each issued multiple locating-services solicitations in the past four months—and the City of Phoenix has posted two separate industrial-pipe supply contracts within weeks of each other.

Geographic activity clusters heavily in Florida (Orange, Pinellas, Pasco, Brevard, Polk counties and multiple municipalities) and Arizona (Phoenix). Recent representative opportunities include Pinellas County's coordinated ITB for the Ridgewood Estates Sewer Improvements and 82nd Avenue & 113th Street Water Main Improvements (due October 13, 2026 for minimum qualifications, with final bids due November 5, 2026), covering approximately 500 linear feet of 12-inch PVC sanitary sewer pipe and 6,800 linear feet of 6-inch water main replacement; the City of Phoenix's IFB for supply of industrial pipe, miscellaneous fittings, and equipment (a three-year as-needed contract effective December 1, 2026, covering HDPE and PVC pipe, fittings, glue, and hand tools with 24- to 48-hour delivery requirements); and the City of Plant City's IFB for underground utility locating services (due August 13, 2026, covering 5,000 standard Sunshine 811 locate tickets annually plus emergency and after-hours locates across the city's water, wastewater, and reclaimed water systems under a three-year initial term with two optional one-year renewals). The City of Bartow's ITB for underground electric utility locating services (due June 10, 2026) and the City of Augusta's ITB for various HDPE pipe, couplings, and end sections (due September 29, 2026) represent additional activity in the geographic footprint. SBE and MBE participation goals appear in multiple Pinellas and Augusta solicitations; local-vendor preferences are common in small-dollar Florida municipal work.