NIGP 80505: Aerobic Training Equipment

NIGP 80505 Aerobic Training Equipment, an Item code, covers the purchase, delivery, installation, and ongoing service of cardio machines and related aerobic exercise apparatus for state and local government fitness facilities. State and local buyers procure individual units such as treadmills, ellipticals, and Stairmasters, as well as comprehensive multi-unit fitness packages that include upright bikes, rowing machines, ascent trainers, climb mills, and fan bikes, often bundled with installation, preventive maintenance, onsite repair, parts availability, and operator instruction. Counties, cities, school districts, and state agencies issue these solicitations, typically through informal written quotes, RFQs, IFBs, or multi-step sealed bid processes. Issuing bodies include Gwinnett County and the City of Atlanta in Georgia, Trion City Schools in Georgia, and the State of Maine Department of Defense, Veterans and Emergency Management. The Atlanta Fire Rescue Department procurement, the most complex recent opportunity, encompasses eighteen equipment groups and requires vendors to provide delivery, installation, four hours of minimum safety instruction, preventive maintenance, certified onsite repair, and parts support with aggressive 24-hour and 72-hour replacement windows; warranty requirements span from 90 days for wear items to ten years for frames and structural components.

Recent activity concentrates in Georgia and Maine. Gwinnett County has issued multiple solicitations for individual pieces—a Stairmaster in June 2026, a treadmill and elliptical pair in April 2026—all with compressed response windows of five to seven days and delivery to fire and emergency services facilities. The City of Atlanta posted a pre-advertisement notice in June 2026 for a multi-step sealed bid with a June 30, 2026 prequalification deadline, followed by an IFB for comprehensive AFRD fitness equipment. Trion City Schools in Georgia released a substantial weight room package IFB on April 24, 2026 (bid opening May 26, 2026, submission deadline June 1, 2026) specifying Rogers Athletic racks and benches, bumper plates, suspension trainers, and free weights. The State of Maine Department of Defense issued an RFQ on April 29, 2026 for gym equipment and installation at Field Maintenance Shop #1 in Saco, with a May 14, 2026 deadline and July 17, 2026 delivery requirement. Sourcewell, a Minnesota cooperative purchasing vehicle, posted RFP #061626 on May 12, 2026 (due June 16, 2026) to establish a law enforcement equipment contracting solution available to thousands of governmental agencies across the United States and Canada, though law enforcement equipment scope diverges from core aerobic training equipment procurement.