NIGP 92517: Civil Engineering

NIGP 92517 Civil Engineering, an Item code, encompasses design, feasibility studies, and construction-phase professional services for infrastructure projects ranging from water and wastewater systems to roadway, drainage, and multimodal improvements that state and local governments procure through engineering firms on either single-project or on-call task-order bases. State and local jurisdictions—counties, cities, transit authorities, water districts, and special-purpose authorities—solicit civil engineering services continuously across the United States, with recent activity concentrated in California, Georgia, Colorado, Florida, Arizona, Ohio, and Massachusetts. Boulder County Parks and Open Space is executing RFP-300-26 for well drilling and water infrastructure installation on county agricultural properties, due September 4, 2026, at a contract value of $350,000; the Georgia Department of Transportation is conducting RFQ 484-081726 for Construction Engineering and Inspection services on three state highway intersection projects in Barrow County, due August 17, 2026, with responses restricted to a prequalified list of eligible firms; UCLA is requesting geotechnical engineering qualifications for the West Valley Medical Center Master Plan Study under a progressive design-build delivery model, due August 7, 2026; and the State of Utah Division of Purchasing is issuing RFP SB26-6 for construction management services on a five-year cooperative purchasing contract, due August 20, 2026, with historical usage showing K-12 schools representing 55.5 percent of demand and $6.47 million in total purchases over 2020-2025.

The code attracts a mixed issuing-body profile spanning state departments, counties, cities, school districts, water authorities, and regional planning commissions. Orange County, California appears frequently across multiple discipline-specific solicitations—flood control engineering, land surveying, cost estimating, mechanical and plumbing design, and power generation services—each on task-order QVL contracts with three-year terms and multiple-award potential. Representative work types include task-order on-call services (water and wastewater, general civil engineering, project management), single design-build or design-bid-build engagements (terminal expansion, roadway widening, grade separation, multimodal trails), and staff augmentation (project managers and construction inspectors for water authorities, transit agencies). Geographically, the recent-opportunities sample shows pronounced activity in California (County of Orange, UCLA, City of Santa Cruz, West Basin, Pinellas County), Georgia (GDOT, Chatham County, City of Atlanta, City of Stonecrest), and scattered work in Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Texas, New York, Michigan, Massachusetts, and Mississippi. RFQ and RFP notice types dominate the code; many solicitations employ quality-based selection or prequalification to a Qualified Vendor List before cost evaluation or negotiation, and cooperative purchasing vehicles are common for on-call task-order work serving multiple agencies or departments.