NIGP 91578: Television Commercial Production

NIGP 91578 Television Commercial Production, an Item code, covers professional production services for broadcast television content, including studio operations, field videography, commercial development, live event capture, and integrated broadcast automation systems that state and local governments procure to produce educational programming, election messaging, athletic events, and government meeting archives. State and local buyers under this code range from public universities and state educational broadcasters to county government cable operations, municipal governments, and special-purpose authorities staging large events. Recent solicitations show demand for both personnel-based production services — videographers, camera operators, and audio technicians working on contract — and turnkey broadcast infrastructure supporting simultaneous cable, web, mobile, and on-demand distribution, indicating a split between labor-intensive field and studio work and capital-intensive broadcast platform deployment.

Geographic activity in recent months spans Kentucky (Kentucky Educational Television's production technician RFP), Florida (Valencia College's classroom technology services and Manatee County School District), Georgia (University of Georgia's marketing and design services, Georgia World Congress Center Authority's FIFA Fan Festival production), Washington State (Secretary of State's voter information multimedia production), Arizona (City of Peoria closed captioning), and Texas (University of Houston Athletics production services). Representative opportunities include the University of Houston Athletics Department's RFP 730-UofH-3127 posted June 26, 2026 (proposals due July 17, 2026) for five-year college sports production services estimated under $1 million; Kentucky Educational Television's RFP for up to eight production technicians (proposals due June 16, 2026) to operate broadcast cameras for educational programs at two worksites at rates from $30 to $56.25 per hour; Hillsborough County's sole-source procurement for a Cablecast VIO2 OMNI broadcast automation and streaming platform (due June 22, 2026); Washington State Office of the Secretary of State's RFP 26-03 for voter information multimedia production across five counties (proposals due June 1, 2026, not-to-exceed value $160,000); and the City of North Miami Beach's request for letters of interest for centennial celebration event production services (letters due March 20, 2026).