NIGP 91817: Aviation Consulting

NIGP 91817 Aviation Consulting, an Item code, encompasses on-call professional services for airport planning, environmental assessment, engineering design, construction administration, and operational support—solicited across multiple airport jurisdictions as multi-year master agreements and task-order arrangements. Recent state and local opportunities show municipalities and airport authorities establishing qualified vendor rosters and on-call frameworks rather than project-specific contracting; the City of Phoenix is building a Qualified Vendors List across four technology and strategy groups (IT consulting, AI/ML, and airport technology strategy) with a five-year term commencing April 2027, while Sacramento County Department of Airports seeks environmental planning support across four facilities and facilities condition assessment and asset management services. Issuing bodies range from independent airport authorities (Greater Orlando Aviation Authority, Jekyll Island Authority, Peachtree City Airport Authority) to county governments (Pinellas County, Sacramento County, Collier County, Early County Georgia) to municipal aviation departments (Phoenix Sky Harbor, Orlando International, Waco Regional). The work includes master planning, NEPA and CEQA documentation, feasibility studies, design-build support, owner's representative and construction management services, technology consulting, wayfinding and signage planning, and environmental compliance across terminals, hangars, parking structures, and airfield infrastructure.

Geographic activity concentrates in Florida (Phoenix, Pinellas County, Collier County, Orlando, Waco), Georgia (Early County, Jekyll Island, College Park, Columbus), California (Sacramento County), and Texas (TSTC, Texas State University). Representative current opportunities include the City of Phoenix RFQu 26-0072 for Airport Technology Consulting Services with a non-mandatory pre-offer conference on October 21, 2026, and offers sealed by December 3, 2026, establishing a five-year QVL across General IT, Enterprise IT Systems, AI/ML, and Airport Technology Strategy groups with minimum five-year experience requirements for Groups 1, 2, and 4 and three-year experience for Group 3; Pinellas County RFQ 260671 for an Owner's Representative on the New PIE Parking Garage (four-level pre-cast concrete structure with 2,100 spaces), proposals due August 20, 2026, structured as negotiated lump-sum fees across seven task phases with an eighteen-month contract term and construction anticipated January 2027 through April 2028; and Sacramento County Department of Airports RFQ 2026WW04 for on-call environmental planning services across four airports, responses due October 13, 2026, with maximum contract value of $3.5 million over three years plus two optional one-year extensions. Federal compliance requirements (FAA Advisory Circulars, NEPA, and Davis-Bacon prevailing wage where applicable) and state set-aside programs (SBE, DBE, LDB/VBE preferences where federally funded) are standard across solicitations.