NIGP 90657: Land Development and Planning - Architectural

NIGP 90657 Land Development and Planning - Architectural, an Item code, encompasses master planning, feasibility studies, site design, code development, and architectural services for parks, municipal facilities, and civic infrastructure that state and local governments procure on both project-specific and continuing on-call bases. Recent solicitations reflect a mix of comprehensive planning—including comprehensive land use plan updates, park and recreation master plans, and land development code rewrites—alongside specialized services such as flood mitigation design, branding and identity development, and adaptive reuse strategies for historic properties. The issuing bodies span city planning departments, county governments, transit authorities, and special-purpose districts across Florida, Georgia, Texas, Connecticut, Colorado, and other states, with activity concentrated in Florida jurisdictions including the City of Orlando, City of Fort Myers, Flagler County, and multiple municipalities in the Miami-Dade and Pinellas County regions. Counties and mid-sized cities (50,000–250,000 population) are the predominant buyers, frequently establishing continuing services agreements to support ongoing planning initiatives rather than one-off projects.

Representative recent opportunities include the City of Fort Myers's RFP 26-107 for a comprehensive Land Development Code rewrite (responses due November 6, 2026), the City of New Haven's RFQ for a multi-disciplinary Reconnection Plan along the I-91 corridor funded by a $2 million USDOT Reconnecting Communities Pilot grant (responses due October 20, 2026), and Flagler County's RFP for a comprehensive review and rewrite of its Land Development Code (responses due October 20, 2026). The City of Alpharetta (Georgia) and City of Edgewater (Florida) are among multiple repeat solicitors of on-call planning consultant services under continuing services frameworks. Several opportunities involve federal or state grant funding with compliance requirements—the City of Orlando's drainwell replacement design project is funded through Orange County Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery Program authority, and the Town of Farragut (Tennessee) park master plan is funded by a $2.5 million Federal Land and Water Conservation Foundation Grant. Pricing structures vary between lump-sum contracts (often for discrete code rewrite or master plan projects), hourly or cost-plus multiplier fee arrangements (common in continuing services), and fixed daily or task-order rates for on-call rosters. Local vendor and minority business enterprise preferences apply in some jurisdictions (Marion County, Fort Myers, Flagler County operate no local-preference provisions where federal funding is involved). The pipeline shows consistent activity through November 2026 and into early 2027, indicating sustained municipal demand for planning infrastructure and policy modernization work.