NIGP 90660: Mining and Mineralogy - Architectural

NIGP 90660 Mining and Mineralogy - Architectural, Item, covers professional architectural, engineering, and design services that state and local governments procure for building and infrastructure projects, plan review and code compliance, historic preservation, and adaptive reuse work. Recent solicitations show cities and counties engaging qualified firms to perform plan reviews ensuring compliance with building codes, comprehensive architectural and engineering design for gymnasium reconstruction following natural disasters, historic preservation and adaptive reuse design, ongoing architectural services on a continuing or as-needed basis, and construction project management across design and construction phases. Issuing bodies include city economic development and procurement departments, county facilities and fleet divisions, and county procurement services offices. The work typically requires professional licensing, current insurance (including professional liability ranging from $1,000,000 to $5,000,000), and demonstrated experience with similar past projects; many solicitations emphasize small business enterprise, minority business enterprise, women's business enterprise, and disadvantaged business enterprise participation.

Geographic activity centers on Georgia and Florida, with recent opportunities in Union City and College Park, Georgia; Nicholls, Georgia; Fort Myers, Florida; and Collier County, Florida, alongside California procurement from Santa Clara County. Representative recent opportunities include the City of Union City's RFP for plan review and inspection services due June 10, 2026; the City of Nicholls's RFQ for architectural and engineering services for gymnasium reconstruction following Hurricane Helene damage, due June 10, 2026 (evaluation on a 100-point scale with experience, references, and staff categories, requiring $2,000,000 professional liability insurance); the City of Fort Myers's RSQ for architectural services on a three-year continuing contract with two potential one-year renewals, due November 4, 2025 (emphasizing MBE participation and Build America, Buy America compliance); Collier County's Request for Professional Services establishing a five-year professional services library across 17 discipline categories including Architectural Historic Preservation, due November 17, 2025 (with individual work orders not to exceed $200,000 and selected consultants required to carry $5,000,000 professional liability insurance); and Santa Clara County's RFSQ for construction project management services, due March 5, 2026, with a $5,000,000 maximum compensation limit for the five-year master PSA and requiring minimum seven years of public agency project experience and HCAI jurisdiction expertise for medical facility projects.