NIGP 72544: Poles, Telephone and Utility (All Kinds)

NIGP 72544 Poles, Telephone and Utility (All Kinds) is an Item code that covers installation, replacement, and inventory management of distribution and utility poles used by municipal electric utilities, public power authorities, and water/sewer districts. State and local governments procure under this code primarily for two types of work: physical pole replacement and relocation projects on energized distribution systems, and comprehensive audits and inventory validation of existing pole infrastructure to verify geospatial data accuracy and count foreign attachments. The code attracts municipal electric utilities as the dominant issuing body, with secondary solicitations from county utilities departments and special-purpose infrastructure authorities.

Recent solicitations cluster in Florida and Georgia. Keys Energy Services (KEYS), the municipal electric utility for the City of Key West, posted solicitation 2226 on September 15, 2026, requesting proposals for a secondary easement pole replacement project involving installation of approximately 151 distribution poles and relocation of approximately 145 customer service drops, with sealed proposals due October 23, 2026; contractors must hold Florida MOT certification, maintain a $2 million comprehensive general liability insurance policy, and bid on a fixed price-per-pole basis with a 100% performance bond. The Orlando Utilities Commission (OUC) in Florida posted solicitation PR8837 on August 31, 2026, seeking qualified suppliers to conduct a comprehensive joint use and streetlight attachments inventory audit spanning approximately 55,000 poles with over 77,000 foreign attachments and approximately 35,000 light poles, with proposals due December 4, 2025; bidders must demonstrate a minimum of five years of experience in similar audits, provide three project references, and deliver results in ESRI File Geodatabase format with 96% or greater accuracy. Pasco County Board of County Commissioners (Florida) issued IFB IFBFP26084 on June 3, 2026, for underground utility locating and bulk asset inventory collection services, with bids due June 30, 2026. Atlanta Beltline, Inc. (Georgia) posted solicitation DC2026117 on August 20, 2026, for construction services on Northeast Beltline Segment 3 and Connector Trails 1-4, including utility relocations and related infrastructure work, with sealed bids due October 6, 2026.