NIGP 91277: Real Estate Developers

NIGP 91277 Real Estate Developers, an Item code, encompasses municipal and county solicitations for acquisition, redevelopment, and disposition of public land through competitive procurement — typically master-development agreements, phased mixed-use projects, adaptive reuse of historic properties, and public-private partnerships with long-term ground leases or fee-simple conveyance. State and local governments use this code to attract private capital and operational expertise to underutilized public assets, with recent work spanning airport hangar leasing, municipal office relocation and site redevelopment, 55+ residential communities, transit-oriented mixed-use development, healthcare facility siting, and adaptive reuse of downtown anchor properties. Issuing bodies include city planning and development departments, county boards of commissioners, transit authorities, and special-purpose redevelopment agencies across Florida, Georgia, Arizona, California, and Texas; repeat buyers are scattered but include county commissioners' offices managing property disposition and city community redevelopment divisions advancing urban infill. The procurement mix skews heavily toward RFP and Invitation to Negotiate (ITN) structures, with pre-proposal meetings, multi-stage evaluation (statements of interest, prequalification, shortlist interviews), and negotiation-phase award protocols; a minority of solicitations use RFQ or market-sounding formats for early-stage feasibility input before formal RFP launch.

Recent opportunities span Florida (City of Sebastian's 30-year ground lease for five aircraft hangar parcels at Sebastian Municipal Airport, RFP 2604, due December 11, 2025; Collier County's Port of the Islands property disposition for affordable housing or outright purchase, ITN 26-8679, due October 14, 2026; City of Doral's 99-year public-private partnership for 10-acre mixed-use 55+ residential development, ITN 202605, due June 23, 2026), Arizona (City of Kingman's master development of traffic interchange and arterial roadway with 128-acre adjacent commercial/mixed-use site, RFQ 2026-RFQ-019, due November 19, 2026), California (multiple Santa Clara County seismic-compliance healthcare facility upgrades with design-build and prequalification gates), and Georgia (Rockdale County mixed-use downtown redevelopment at 1.94 acres in Conyers, RFP #26-15, due September 24, 2026; City of Albany adaptive-reuse acquisitions at 218 N. Washington and 132-136 Pine Avenue, RFPs 27-021 and 27-022, due October 13 and October 16, 2026 respectively). Local vendor and small-business preferences are common; E-Verify enrollment, insurance minimums ($1–2 million general liability typical), and performance/payment bonds equal to 100% of construction or contract value are standard terms. No formal DBE set-asides appear in the source, though a few solicitations reference favorable consideration for minority or women-owned enterprises. Geographic concentration is evident in the Sun Belt and Western states, with particularly active procurement in metro Phoenix, South Florida, Central Valley California, and Georgia urban corridors.