NIGP 92517: Civil Engineering

NIGP 92517 Civil Engineering, an Item code, encompasses the planning, design, and engineering services that state and local governments procure for transportation infrastructure, water systems, stormwater facilities, site development, and public facilities projects. Recent state and local solicitations show active demand for roadway and bridge design (including pedestrian and shared-use paths), water and wastewater system engineering, drainage and stormwater improvements, construction administration and inspection services, and pre-construction cost estimating and feasibility analysis. Issuing bodies span city departments of transportation and public works, county public works and planning offices, municipal water utilities, regional planning organizations, transit authorities, university system facilities offices, and special-purpose districts including flood control and airport authorities. The mix reflects both single-project design procurements and standing on-call Qualified Vendor Lists (QVLs) or task-order contracts for multiple concurrent or sequential projects.

Representative recent opportunities include the Town of Parker, Colorado soliciting an RFQ for roadway and bridge design on Chambers Road (SOQ due November 14, 2026, with qualifications-based selection and subsequent fee negotiation); the City of Winder, Georgia requesting preconstruction engineering design services for a pedestrian bridge spanning State Route 8 (SOQ due November 19, 2026, with GDOT prequalification as a mandatory eligibility filter); the City of Phoenix requesting construction administration and inspection services for a 9,480-linear-foot redundant force main project valued at approximately $7.9 million (proposals due October 30, 2026, with qualifications-based evaluation weighted toward experience and past performance); and Eagle Mountain City, Utah issuing two concurrent design RFPs—one for 100% design of a culinary water transmission mainline (proposals due November 3, 2026) and a second for sewer trunkline and effluent disposal line design advancing from 30% to 100% completion (proposals due November 4, 2026, with estimated construction costs of $21.5 million and $13.8 million respectively). Geographic activity concentrates in Colorado, Georgia, Utah, Florida, Texas, and California, with additional recent solicitations from Massachusetts, Maryland, Ohio, Kentucky, and the Carolinas. Respondents to civil engineering RFPs typically face mandatory professional licensing requirements, GDOT or state prequalification filters, federal compliance obligations (prevailing wage, DBE, NEPA, Clean Water Act) where federal funding applies, and comprehensive insurance and bonding mandates. Qualifications-based selection dominates the market; pricing is often excluded from evaluation or deferred to post-selection fee negotiation under state consultants' competitive negotiation statutes.