NIGP 90735: Designing Services

NIGP 90735 Designing Services, an Item code, encompasses architectural and engineering design services for capital projects across diverse facility types and infrastructure systems, as demonstrated by recent state and local solicitations covering airport pedestrian walkways, libraries, senior centers, water infrastructure, roadway corridors, university buildings, and wastewater treatment facilities. State and local governments use this code to procure comprehensive design work spanning schematic design through construction administration, including feasibility studies, site surveys, utility coordination, permitting support, and construction phase services. Work is solicited by county departments of airports, city planning and public works offices, university systems and individual institutions, water authorities, transportation departments, school districts, and special-purpose districts across multiple regions and facility categories.

Recent procurement activity reflects broad geographic spread and diverse issuing bodies. The County of Sacramento Department of Airports issued two RFQs for construction manager-at-risk services involving design review and preconstruction coordination—one for a pedestrian walkway project at Sacramento International Airport (SOQ due July 30, 2026) and another for taxiway rehabilitation (due July 30, 2026). University system boards in Georgia have issued multiple design RFQs for academic buildings, renovation projects, and specialized facilities with qualifications due between mid-June and late July 2026. Cities and counties in Florida, Georgia, Kansas, South Carolina, Oregon, Connecticut, Texas, Ohio, and Michigan posted design solicitations during June and July 2026 for parks, libraries, roadway corridors, pump stations, senior centers, and historic building conversions. The Great Lakes Water Authority, West Basin Municipal Water District, City of Portland Bureau of Environmental Services, and Broward County Transportation Department solicited on-call professional engineering services with multi-year terms and estimated values ranging from $3 million to $30 million. Evaluation in most procurements is qualifications-based under state consultants' competitive negotiation statutes, with fee proposals negotiated after qualifications ranking; design-build delivery is employed in selected procurements. Set-asides and preferences vary by jurisdiction—DBE, MBE, WBE, and SBE designations appear frequently, and several Georgia university system procurements include minority and women-owned business enterprise tracking. No specific set-aside concentrations dominate the code.