NIGP 92596: Waste Water Treatment Engineering

NIGP 92596 Waste Water Treatment Engineering, an Item code, covers design, engineering, consulting, and construction support services for municipal wastewater treatment facilities, collection systems, and water reclamation infrastructure. State and local governments are procuring under this code comprehensive engineering services spanning preliminary and detailed design, permitting and environmental compliance, construction administration and inspection, operations and maintenance support, equipment specification and procurement assistance, and specialized consulting for facility upgrades, rehabilitation, and new construction. Representative recent activity includes West Basin Municipal Water District's on-call professional engineering services for planning and design of wastewater treatment facility improvements and recycled water systems (RFP RFPTH0128, proposals due July 14, 2026); Fulton County, Georgia's progressive design-build for the Friendship Pump Station and force main (RFP 26RFP150795K-JAJ, proposals due August 12, 2026); and Beaufort County's sewer pump station and force main construction to divert Laurel Bay Wastewater Treatment Plant flow (IFB 2027IFB003, proposals due August 13, 2026). The issuing bodies are mixed across municipal water utilities, county public works and engineering departments, special-purpose water districts, and independent water authorities, with repeat activity from Palm Beach County Water Utilities Department and the City of Atlanta Department of Watershed Management.

Procurement under this code concentrates in Florida, Georgia, and the Pacific Northwest, with strong current activity in California and South Carolina. Palm Beach County Water Utilities Department is actively soliciting multiple concurrent on-call engineering services contracts for utility distribution and collection systems (up to five firms, four-year terms, mandatory 20 percent SBE participation, proposals due July 8, 2026 under multiple RFP numbers). The City of Lubbock, Texas is seeking design services for a water treatment plant integration project leveraging future Lake 7 water supply (RFQ 26-19719-KM, proposals due July 2, 2026), and Clackamas County, Oregon is procuring a complete UV disinfection system for wastewater applications at the Kellogg Creek Water Resource Recovery Facility (RFP 2026-44, proposals due June 24, 2026). Specialized services appearing in recent solicitations include on-call diving for infrastructure inspection and emergency response (City of Atlanta), master services agreements for facility reliability improvements (Seminole County, Florida), and professional engineering oversight for hurricane-damaged wastewater infrastructure hardening (City of Fort Myers under federal disaster recovery grants). The code sees steady procurement velocity across the country with particular intensity in the Southeast and Southwest regions where facility upgrades, capital planning, and regulatory compliance drive sustained engineering demand.