NIGP 80145: Sign Making Equipment Including Computerized Type

NIGP 80145 Sign Making Equipment Including Computerized Type, an Item code, covers the supply and fabrication of traffic and directional signage, reflective sheeting materials, sign blanks, and sign-assembly services procured by state and local governments for roadways, public facilities, and wayfinding applications. State and local buyers under this code are contracting for aluminum sign blanks, reflective sheeting (3M brand, ASTM D4956-09 Type XI standards), fabricated traffic control signs, warning signs, route markers, regulatory signs, waterway markers, wayfinding signage, and custom signage. Recent solicitations show issuing bodies across multiple jurisdictions and agency types: city procurement offices (Detroit), county transportation and parks departments (Pinellas County, Pasco County, Sarasota County, Mason County, Santa Clara County, Kern County), state departments of transportation (California Department of Transportation, Texas Department of Transportation, Gwinnett County), and municipal parks and recreation departments (Dallas). Work solicited ranges from standing purchase agreements for as-needed sign fabrication and supply to specific project-based installations, with some contracts requiring compliance with the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD), ASTM material specifications, and state-specific standards such as the Texas Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices or Florida Department of Transportation specifications.

Geographic activity concentrates in California, Florida, and Texas, with additional recent solicitations in Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, and Colorado. Representative recent opportunities include the City of Detroit RFQ 551249 for square tube steel signposts and anchors (response October 16, 2026), requiring phosphate-coated signposts and hot-dipped galvanized anchors in bundles of twenty-five units with a seven-year warranty; Pinellas County's ITQ 260850 for sign fabrication services (due October 6, 2026), covering fabrication of regulatory, warning, and temporary traffic control signs on a 24-month contract with optional extensions; Sarasota County's IFB 262854KR for wayfinding sign repair and installation in the Englewood Main Street District (response September 7, 2026, funded through disaster grant); and the Texas Department of Transportation's solicitation 601290000034114 for traffic sign fabrication, printing equipment, software, and services (due August 14, 2026). California Department of Transportation has posted multiple Small Business Minor B construction contracts capped at $484,000.00 combining signing, lighting, and pavement work. Pasco County and Gwinnett County are procuring as-needed supplies of aluminum sign blanks and digital signage technologies respectively under indefinite-quantity arrangements.