NIGP 90683: Sports Facility, Architectural Services

NIGP 90683 Sports Facility, Architectural Services is an Item code that encompasses design, planning, and construction administration services for public athletic and recreational facilities—including new construction, renovations, and disaster-recovery projects. State and local governments are procuring architectural and engineering services for sports complexes, aquatic centers, gymnasiums, soccer fields, basketball courts, and multipurpose event facilities, typically combined with site planning, feasibility studies, and construction oversight under design-build, construction-manager-at-risk, and traditional design-bid-build delivery methods. Issuing bodies include city parks and recreation departments, county boards of commissioners, school districts, and special districts; repeat buyers in the recent opportunities block include the City of Cartersville and City of Lyons (both Georgia), Seminole County (Florida), and the School Board of Hillsborough County (Florida). The work spans preliminary programming and master planning, schematic and detailed design phases, permitting and construction administration, and long-term facility operations planning, with specialized scopes including seismic retrofit and hurricane-recovery design tied to FEMA compliance requirements.

Recent opportunities cluster in Florida and Georgia, with additional activity in California and Oregon. Representative current procurements include the City of Cartersville, Georgia soliciting architectural and engineering design services for redevelopment of Cartersville Sports Complex and Hicks Park improvements (RFP, proposals due October 23, 2026, preliminary $4 million to $6 million construction budget); Seminole County Board of County Commissioners requesting architectural and engineering services for an Indoor Sports Complex at 1301 East Second Street, Sanford, Florida (RFP, proposals due June 17, 2026, approximately 161,000 to 178,500 gross square feet); the City of Atlanta Department of Parks and Recreation seeking design-build proposals for the William Walker Aquatic Center at Ben Hill Park (RFP, proposals due July 10, 2026); and the School Board of Hillsborough County issuing a single-source procurement notice for the Fitness Court system and site planning services from National Fitness Campaign LP (seven-business-day posting period through February 3, 2026). Hurricane-recovery work under FEMA PA Program guidance is driving additional architectural services demand in Georgia, notably the City of Lyons requesting qualifications for an event center design (RFQ, responses due October 28, 2026) and the City of Nicholls requesting qualifications for gymnasium replacement following Hurricane Helene (RFQ, responses due June 2, 2026).