NIGP 91316: Construction, Communication Equipment (Includes Antenna Towers)

NIGP 91316 Construction, Communication Equipment (Includes Antenna Towers), an Item code, encompasses ground leases for cellular and telecommunications tower sites, tower inspection and maintenance contracts, antenna system installation, and related communication infrastructure work that state and local governments procure to support wireless communications networks, emergency services dispatch, and public safety operations. Recent activity shows counties, cities, airport authorities, and utilities issuing RFPs, RFQs, ITBs, and IFBs for tower site leases, tower climbing and maintenance services, PAPI (Precision Approach Path Indicator) replacements at airports, AWOS (Automated Weather Observation System) electrical and concrete foundations, and fiber optic/communication line installations. The Town of Tyrone, Georgia solicited ground lease proposals for a telecommunications tower at 145 Commerce Drive (deadline July 27, 2026, RFP); the City of Phoenix issued a five-year contract for communication tower inspection, maintenance, and repair services (deadline April 3, 2026, IFB); and the Oregon Department of Aviation advertised PAPI unit replacement at Independence State Airport (deadline May 14, 2026, ITB) and AWOS replacement at Joseph State Airport (deadline May 7, 2026, ITB). The Michigan Department of Transportation and the City of Frisco, Texas each solicited AWOS and antenna system installations respectively. Issuing bodies include county governments (Orange County, California; Orange County, Florida; Marion County, Oregon; Santa Clara County, California; Broward County, Florida), cities (Phoenix, Frisco, Bend, Tucson, Brownsville), airport authorities (Peachtree City Airport Authority in Georgia; Fulton County Executive Airport in Georgia; Oregon Department of Aviation), utilities and water districts, and special-purpose districts serving multi-county regions.

Geographic concentration is heaviest in California, Florida, Georgia, Oregon, Michigan, and Texas, with recent solicitations also from Arizona and Colorado jurisdictions. Representative recent opportunities include the Town of Tyrone's communications tower ground lease procurement (RFP, July 27, 2026), the City of Phoenix's communication tower inspection, maintenance, and repair services contract for five years (IFB, April 3, 2026), the Peachtree City Airport Authority's new Air Traffic Control Tower construction (IFB, July 14, 2026, federally funded with Davis-Bacon and Buy American requirements), the Oregon Department of Aviation's PAPI and AWOS replacement projects at statewide airports (ITBs, May 2026), and the Michigan Department of Transportation's AWOS concrete and electrical work at six airports (RFP, April 10, 2026, prequalification-based with prevailing wage and federal compliance mandates). Activity spans design-build, construction-phase, and operations-maintenance contracts, with bonding, insurance, prevailing wage, and federal or state compliance requirements common across most solicitations. Set-asides and preferences appear sporadically—Fulton County required MBE/FBE participation; Oregon projects invoke Davis-Bacon and prevailing wage; federal airport funding triggers Buy American and Title VI civil rights provisions—but many municipal and county tower and communications infrastructure procurements do not impose explicit disadvantaged-enterprise or small-business restrictions.