NIGP 90610: Buildings - Architectural Design

NIGP 90610 Buildings—Architectural Design is an Item code under which state and local governments solicit comprehensive professional design services for buildings across educational, recreational, civic, and specialized facilities, with recent activity driven primarily by K-12 school renovations, university campus projects, municipal recreation centers, and technical college expansions. The code encompasses the full scope of architectural and engineering design services—from programming and schematic design through construction documents, permitting support, and construction administration—along with related disciplines including structural, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, civil, landscape, and specialty engineering. The solicitations show issuing bodies spanning state higher-education systems (Texas A&M, Kennesaw State, Georgia Tech, Lake-Sumter State College), county school districts (Seminole, Manatee, Bibb), municipal and county governments (Cities of Atlanta, Dublin, Wichita, Cooper City; Counties of Sacramento, Collier, Pinellas, Beaufort), airport authorities (Sacramento International, Melbourne), and other special districts and authorities. Georgia, Florida, and Texas dominate recent activity, with meaningful secondary volume in South Carolina, Connecticut, Colorado, Kansas, and other states.

Representative recent solicitations include the City of Atlanta's Grove Park Recreation Center Replacement design-build RFP (October 2026, responses due November 10), requiring M/FBE joint venture participation and a 540-day delivery schedule; Kennesaw State University's Village Residential Dining design-build for an approximately 12,500-square-foot renovation (responses due November 10, preliminary cost $4.9 million); the Texas A&M University System's West Campus Vivarium design RFQ for a 68,890-gross-square-foot USDA/NIH-compliant animal research facility ($135 million total project, responses due November 10); Seminole County Schools' Milwee Middle School renovation design-build ($34 million roof, HVAC, and facility expansion, finalist selection underway); and the Bibb County School District's Sonny Carter Elementary renovation architectural services (responses due October 19). Recent opportunities also reflect growing demand for specialized work: HVAC system overhauls on existing schools (Bayshore High School, Lakewood Ranch High School), technical college expansions for EV training (Ogeechee Technical College Automotive/EV, $10.92 million CM/GC project), and adaptive reuse of industrial space (Georgia Department of Corrections transitional centers in Savannah and Warner Robins, each $25 million design-build projects). A/E services are procured through RFQ under qualifications-based selection per most states' consultant competitive negotiation acts, with pricing negotiated after firm selection; design-build and CM-at-Risk delivery methods are increasingly common on larger projects. Professional liability insurance requirements typically run $1 million to $2 million per occurrence; firms must hold state architectural and engineering licenses and demonstrate relevant K-12, higher-education, or specialized facility experience with recent, comparable projects.