NIGP 91862: Horticultural Consulting

NIGP 91862 Horticultural Consulting, an Item code, covers professional advisory services on tree health, urban forest management, landscape planning, and arboricultural practices that state and local governments procure to develop master plans, assess tree inventories and risk, guide maintenance and removal decisions, and manage public green space. Recent solicitations show government agencies buying detailed urban forest master plans with 15-year planning horizons and implementation roadmaps; tree risk assessment and health evaluations compliant with International Society of Arboriculture standards; arborist consulting on tree removal, pruning, and removal execution; and horticultural consulting for sports field and landscape maintenance. Issuing bodies include city planning departments, public works agencies, transit authorities, and special-purpose authorities; the City of Atlanta Department of City Planning, City of Orlando, Orange County Transportation Authority, and Tampa Sports Authority appear as recent buyers. Work is often federally funded through U.S. Forest Service Inflation Reduction Act grants or administered through urban sustainability networks.

Recent opportunities span the Southeast and West Coast, with the most current activity in Georgia (Atlanta's urban forest master plan RFP, pre-advertisement notice posted July 14, 2026 with questions due July 30, 2026) and Florida (Orlando's arborist consulting, tree removal, and pruning RFP 26-0203 closed May 21, 2026; Tampa Sports Authority's horticultural consulting ITB for Raymond James Stadium). The City of Charlotte issued an RFP for tree planting and landscaping services across departmental programs due July 23, 2026, and the Orange County Transportation Authority in California solicited landscape maintenance for 15 facilities under IFB 250324, a prevailing wage contract estimated at $503,190 for two years plus an optional one-year renewal. Atlanta's Urban Forest Master Plan engagement, funded through the Inflation Reduction Act, requires experience developing comparable plans for large cities, carries a 20 percent SBE participation goal, and runs through April 30, 2029. Performance and payment bonding, substantial insurance (Commercial General Liability from $1 million to $2 million aggregate), and federal compliance (E-Verify, Davis-Bacon Act prevailing wage requirements on federally funded work) are standard in current solicitations.