NIGP 90772: Safety Engineering and Accident Studies; Osha Studies

NIGP 90772 Safety Engineering and Accident Studies; OSHA Studies is an Item code under which state and local governments procure professional engineering and planning consulting services focused on transportation and roadway safety analysis, crash data assessment, comprehensive safety action planning, and related accident prevention studies. Recent solicitations show this code encompasses corridor safety audits, fatality reduction planning, safety infrastructure design, and systems-level safety improvements driven by federal Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) grant programs and state transportation priorities. Issuing bodies include county boards of commissioners, metropolitan planning organizations, city transportation departments, regional commissions, and state departments of transportation across Georgia, Florida, Texas, New Mexico, and other states. Representative recent work includes Spalding County, Georgia's RFP for a Comprehensive Safety Action Plan (RFP No. SS4A-2026-01, proposals due July 20, 2026) addressing the county's 65 motor vehicle fatalities between 2018 and 2022; the Waco Metropolitan Planning Organization's transportation signage inventory and demonstration project (RFP 2026-017, proposals due May 20, 2026) across 11 McLennan County jurisdictions; and the Atlanta Regional Commission's community safety audit technology platform for school-based bike safety audits (RFP594, proposals due June 11, 2026, anticipated contract value $180,000).

The code sees active procurement across the Southeast, with notable clustering in Georgia (Spalding County, Atlanta Regional Commission, Georgia Department of Transportation), Florida (City of Waco area, Brevard County), and Texas. Contracts typically run 18 to 36 months and are structured as either fixed-price professional services agreements or task-order-based continuing-services vehicles. Evaluation criteria consistently weight firm qualifications and relevant experience heavily (30–40 points), technical approach and project methodology (25–40 points), and schedule/capacity (10–20 points), with cost typically weighted at 10% or treated as a negotiated element post-selection. Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) participation is a frequent requirement under federally funded programs; Safe Streets and Roads for All projects routinely impose DBE participation benchmarks (Spalding County's 5% goal; Waco MPO's neutral small business approach). Multiple-award vehicles and cooperative purchasing structures are common. The code is active and competitive right now with funding flows from federal safety grant programs creating steady demand through 2027–2028.