NIGP 90625: Design Build Services

NIGP 90625 Design Build Services, an Item code, represents the full spectrum of design-build delivery across state and local infrastructure, including brand identity systems, recreational facilities, water treatment plants, parking structures, airports, and civic buildings. State and local governments use design-build procurement to compress project schedules, align cost and design incentives, and achieve integrated delivery where a single entity manages both design and construction risk under a negotiated or fixed price.

Issuing bodies span state departments (University System of Georgia, Oregon Department of Energy), counties (Greenwood, Collier, Lee, Beaufort, Harris, Deschutes, Monroe, Sacramento), municipalities (Hampton and Rome, Georgia; Daytona Beach, Orlando, and New London, Florida; New Haven, Connecticut; Columbus and Dublin, Georgia; Alpharetta and Leesburg, Georgia), school districts (Decatur County Board of Education), transit and airport authorities (South Florida Regional Transportation Authority, Orlando Utilities Commission, Canaveral Port Authority, Sacramento International Airport Department, Lee County Port Authority), utility districts (West Basin Municipal Water District, Great Lakes Water Authority, Pinellas Suncoast Fire & Rescue District), and special authorities (Clayton State University Board of Regents). Recent opportunities cluster in Florida (Daytona Beach Ralph Brennan WTP storm hardening, Orlando Grove Park Garage, Leesburg pickleball courts, Canaveral Cruise Terminal 3, Pinellas continuing services), Georgia (Bainbridge High School athletic facilities, Lee County Recreation Center, Dublin multimodal plan, Rome water reclamation facility, Union City Watson Street, McDonough City Hall), South Carolina (Greenwood County fire station, Beaufort County airport hangars and pedestrian bridge), and California (Sacramento International Airport projects, West Basin on-call engineering). Representative recent solicitations include the City of Hampton, Georgia's RFP 2026-08 for logo design and branding services (due November 9, 2026, structured as a four-phase project with lump-sum pricing per phase); Greenwood County, South Carolina's RFQ for architectural and engineering design of a new Lower Lake Fire Station 60 (due August 13, 2026, with fixed-price design-build delivery); the County of Sacramento's RFQ for Construction Manager at Risk services for the Airfield Maintenance Facility project at Sacramento International Airport (SOQs due November 19, 2026, estimated construction budget $18 million, preconstruction nine months plus twelve-month construction phase); and the City of Daytona Beach's RFQ 2659RFQ for progressive design-build services on Ralph Brennan Water Treatment Plant storm hardening and resiliency (responses due September 22, 2026, fully funded by SAHM allocations totaling $35.139 million plus $7.435 million on waiting list, hard deadline December 15, 2031). Evaluation commonly weights qualifications and experience at 30 to 50 percent, past performance at 20 to 35 percent, project approach and technical methodology at 15 to 30 percent, schedule at 5 to 20 percent, and cost at 10 to 25 percent. Insurance and bonding are standard across the code, typically requiring $1 million to $5 million general liability, performance bonds at 100 percent of contract value, and prevailing wage compliance where applicable. MBE, WBE, SBE, and DBE participation goals appear in Florida and California procurements; Georgia and South Carolina opportunities show less explicit set-aside language but often flag E-Verify and security-clearance requirements. Federal funding (ARPA, FTA, FAA, FDOT RAISE grants) introduces compliance obligations including Davis-Bacon wage rates, Buy America provisions, and environmental review. Prequalification vehicles and continuing-services agreements dominate Oregon and Florida market activity, enabling rapid task-order deployment once firms are shortlisted.