NIGP 92625: Carbon Offsets

NIGP 92625 Carbon Offsets, an Item code, covers consulting and feasibility services for the development, assessment, and design of forest carbon credit projects on state and tribal lands, grounded in recent solicitations seeking technical analysis of carbon sequestration potential, project registration pathways, and revenue modeling under voluntary and regulatory carbon market protocols. Work involves evaluating forest management practices for carbon credit eligibility, quantifying carbon offset yield, designing project frameworks to meet registry requirements, and advising on financial viability across different market structures. Issuing bodies include state natural resource departments, federally recognized tribes with forestlands, and regional environmental agencies; the Confederated Tribes of the Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians and the Washington Department of Natural Resources both solicited forest carbon feasibility work in the recent window.

Geographic activity concentrates in the Pacific Northwest, with recent solicitations from Washington state and southwestern Oregon tribal lands. The Confederated Tribes of the Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians posted RFP SX0600100017342 on June 30, 2026, with proposals due July 22, 2026, seeking consulting services to evaluate and design an Improved Forest Management carbon project across 14,742 acres in five southwestern Oregon counties; Indian Preference applies, and a critical qualification requirement mandates direct experience assisting federally recognized tribes with carbon offset project development under the Washington Cap-and-Invest Program. The Washington Department of Natural Resources issued RFQQ DNRRFQQ2615 on April 30, 2026, with proposals due May 26, 2026, requesting feasibility analysis of forest carbon offset credit generation from structurally complex forest on state-managed lands across Franklin, Grant, Grays Harbor, Chelan, and Yakima counties, with deliverables including technical and financial viability assessments and revenue implications under both voluntary and regulatory market protocols.