NIGP 78084: Truck Scales and Railroad Track Scales

NIGP 78084 Truck Scales and Railroad Track Scales, an Item code, covers the purchase, installation, maintenance, repair, and emergency support of truck-mounted and stationary weighing equipment used in waste management, law enforcement, and transportation enforcement operations. Recent solicitations show state and local governments buying deck scales, wheel load weighers, semi-portable commercial vehicle scales, and full scale systems with integrated software, RFID readers, and traffic control gates. Scope spans preventive maintenance contracts with quarterly or annual service cycles, emergency repair on-call availability with response-time guarantees, calibration to NTEP and NIST standards, and turnkey supply-and-installation packages for new equipment deployments. Issuing bodies include county waste management and solid waste authorities (Escambia County Waste Services, Orange County OC Waste & Recycling, Tooele County Solid Waste, Solid Waste Authority of Palm Beach County), city municipal departments (City of Philadelphia), state agencies (Texas Department of Public Safety), and county engineering/transportation units (Williamson County). Repeat solicitation activity is concentrated in Florida waste operations, particularly Escambia County, which reposted the same Perdido Landfill and Palafox Transfer Station scale maintenance scope three times between June and August 2026.

Geographic activity concentrates in Florida (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the Southwest, with the Texas Department of Public Safety and Tooele County Utah also active in the recent window. Representative recent opportunities include Escambia County Waste Services' ITB for annual truck scale maintenance and repair at two landfills (ITB PD 25-26.103, due August 12, 2026), specifying Fairbanks and Rice Lake scale models with mandatory 300-mile geographic constraint and 4-to-6-hour emergency response; Tooele County Solid Waste's IFB for supply and installation of two 100-ton deck scales with NTEP certification, RFID readers, and automated gates (IFB DF2627, due June 25, 2026); and the Texas Department of Public Safety's IFB for semi-portable commercial vehicle weighing systems with custom trailers for roadside enforcement (IFB 40526R0004253, due April 30, 2026, with HUB subcontracting plan requirement). The City of Philadelphia's RFQ for deck scale maintenance (B2728091, due October 8, 2026) targets an annual requirements contract with pricing capped at $99,000, adjusted by CPI-U with 4 percent renewal caps. Orange County, California's IFB for scale maintenance and repair across ten Emery Winslow and four Fairbanks scales at waste facilities and hazardous waste centers (IFB 2992971803AA1, due May 15, 2026) requires California Registered Service Agency licensing and structured usage-based labor rates with OCLSB and DVBE price preferences available.