NIGP 90714: Architectural Services, Non-Licensed (Not Otherwise Classified)

NIGP 90714 Item — Architectural Services, Non-Licensed (Not Otherwise Classified) — encompasses design and pre-construction consulting work on institutional, civic, and commercial projects where state and local governments engage firms for schematic design through construction administration, often paired with or subordinate to licensed professional architecture. Recent state and local solicitations under this code show universities, colleges, cities, counties, and specialized districts procuring design services for building renovations, facility assessments, adaptive reuse planning, and related pre-design consulting on projects ranging from $300,000 to $163.7 million in construction value.

University systems dominate recent activity under this code, particularly the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia, which has issued multiple RFQs for design professional services across campuses in Georgia (Georgia Tech's Guggenheim Aerospace Engineering facility, Georgia Institute of Technology; Georgia Southern's School of Optometry; Kennesaw State's Student Success renovations; University of North Georgia's Strickland Hall; Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College's Student Success and Career Services; Columbus State's One Arsenal Place; Albany State's Criminal Justice Learning Lab). Beyond Georgia, Washington State Department of Enterprise Services solicited design services for dam remediation at Grays Harbor College and hillside stabilization at the Capitol Campus; Seminole County, Florida issued concurrent RFQs for architectural and engineering services on a 161,000–178,500 gross-square-foot indoor sports complex; and the City of Pasadena procured Construction Manager at Risk services for a historic library seismic retrofit and renovation. Georgia Department of Transportation has posted multiple RFQs for traffic signal operations program management and engineering design services across five transportation projects statewide. Design professional base fees on recent university projects range from approximately $280,000 to $9 million, with construction cost limitations spanning $2.4 million to $163.7 million. Most procurements use qualifications-based selection with two-step processes (qualifications followed by fee proposals and finalist interviews), require in-house architectural design performance of at least 50 percent, and demand compliance with state sustainability standards (Georgia Peach certification), E-Verify, and minority business enterprise tracking. Georgia shows the highest concentration of recent activity, followed by Florida, Washington, and scattered municipal and county procurements across Texas, Tennessee, and Kansas. The code remains active in mid-2026 with multiple opportunities posted from June through July 2026.