NIGP 69059: Power Plants (Hydro, Marine, Petrol, Solar, Steam, Wind, Thermal)

NIGP 69059 Power Plants (Hydro, Marine, Petrol, Solar, Steam, Wind, Thermal), an Item code, encompasses the design, procurement, installation, and maintenance of distributed renewable and backup power generation systems that state and local governments are deploying across facilities and infrastructure. Recent state and local solicitations show a pronounced shift toward solar photovoltaic systems—both rooftop and ground-mounted arrays with battery storage integration—alongside diesel and UPS backup power systems, microgrid architectures, and specialized equipment such as inverters, optimizers, and monitoring platforms. Issuing bodies span city utilities, county agencies, school districts, water districts, state corrections and environmental departments, and municipal departments of facilities management. Salt Lake City School District emerges as a notable repeat buyer, having posted three concurrent IFBs in September 2026 for solar modules, rooftop inverters with rapid shutdown capability, and canopy inverters with data acquisition systems, collectively representing a multi-phase district-wide solar expansion. Cities and counties are the dominant procurement tier, with school districts and special-purpose water and utility districts following.

Activity concentrates in the Southwest and Southeast, with recent opportunities posted by the City of Tybee Island (Georgia), City of Decatur (Georgia), Salt Lake City School District (Utah), Salt Lake County (Utah), Fairfax County (Virginia), and Eastern Municipal Water District (Riverside County, California). The City of Tybee Island issued RFP2026-113 for a 42-kilowatt minimum solar array installation on the Tybee Island Marine Science Center with proposals due November 3, 2026; the Solid Waste Authority of Palm Beach County posted a Letters of Interest solicitation (RFEI 27-501, due November 18, 2026) for design-build-operate-maintain services on a mass-burn waste-to-energy facility processing 2,550 tons per day with three 850-ton-per-day boilers. Salt Lake City School District's IFB TB2711-SM for 2,304 solar modules (adjusted to 2,537 per Addendum 1) across four school sites closed September 23, 2026. The City of Pasadena Department of Water and Power solicited design and engineering for a rooftop wind microturbine distributed energy resource (minimum 5 kilowatts) under RFP 2026RFP0129, with proposals due July 7, 2026. The City of Decatur issued RFP for design and engineering of a 170 kW solar photovoltaic system, 250 kW/500 kWh battery energy storage system, and DC fast charger (proposals due October 13, 2026), subject to Build America, Buy America domestic content requirements. Maryland Environmental Service and California Department of Motor Vehicles posted maintenance contracts for backup power and UPS systems; the City of Dallas established an ID/IQ service price agreement for solar panel operations, maintenance, and repair (BT2600030442, due July 17, 2026).