NIGP 91216: Boring, Drilling, Testing, and Soundings, Including Concrete Coring

NIGP 91216 Boring, Drilling, Testing, and Soundings, Including Concrete Coring, Item code, covers competitive procurement of drilling, boring, sampling, and associated geotechnical testing services that state and local governments buy to support subsurface investigation, utility infrastructure installation, water well development, and facility construction projects. Recent solicitations show work ranging from geotechnical site characterization for transportation projects and building seismic upgrades to utility crossing bores under railroad rights-of-way, directional drilling for conduit and water distribution systems, and thermal conductivity testing for geothermal feasibility studies. State departments of transportation, county utilities, municipalities, school districts, county parks and open space departments, and special-purpose districts (transit authorities, airport authorities, water commissions) are active buyers under this code. Repeat soliciting bodies include Oregon Department of Transportation (multiple geotechnical drilling and cone penetration testing projects at the Wickiup Junction site, plus coastal landslide investigations); Santa Clara County (hospital seismic compliance projects requiring structural and utility component boring); and Broward County Transportation Department (ADA transit improvement work). Florida and Oregon show the most concentrated recent activity, with secondary demand in Colorado, Georgia, California, and Connecticut.

Representative recent opportunities include the Oregon Department of Transportation requesting bids for geotechnical drilling, sampling, and in-situ testing at a diatomaceous soil site near Wickiup under ITB S-73000-00018072, with bids due October 20, 2026; the Greenwood Metropolitan District, South Carolina, soliciting sealed bids for railroad boring services (180 linear feet of 18-inch steel casing jack and bore under a CSX crossing) on Briarwood Road under RFB 2026RFB008, with bids due October 27, 2026; the City of DeBary, Florida, procuring Hunter irrigation system installation at Rob Sullivan Park under competitive bid (Bid 03-15), with bids due April 10, 2015; and the City of Milton, Florida, requesting bids for directional boring services for utility installation on an as-needed purchase order basis under ITB 2026.05, with bids due July 22, 2026. Insurance, bonding, and licensing requirements are consistent across most solicitations; federal-funded work includes Buy America and prevailing-wage compliance. Most bids remain firm for 90 days and are awarded to the lowest responsive, responsible bidder.