NIGP 94650: Fund Raising Services

NIGP 94650 Fund Raising Services, an Item code, encompasses approved vendor lists and consultant services for school district and municipal fundraising programs, grant development, and event planning. State and local governments procuring under this code buy food and product vendor services for student fundraisings activities, grant consulting and opportunity identification services, event planning for municipal celebrations, and catalog discount cooperative purchasing on educational supplies. The issuing bodies are primarily school districts and municipalities. Salt Lake City School District dominates recent activity, posting multiple RFQs for approved vendor lists of food and product suppliers for school fundraisers under Utah's Charitable Solicitations Act; Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District in Texas and the City of Dallas also appear as active buyers. Vendors responding to school fundraiser solicitations must hold state fundraiser permits or co-venturer letters, comply with strict prohibitions on tobacco, alcohol, door-to-door student solicitation, and sales quotas, maintain student data confidentiality under FERPA and state privacy law, and carry commercial general liability insurance of at least $1 million per occurrence. Salt Lake City School District structures its approved-vendor evaluations on weighted scorecards (40 percent vendor qualifications and experience, 30 percent complaints and problem resolution, 20 percent references, 10 percent fundraiser details) with minimum thresholds of 375 points on a 500-point scale; contracts run up to eighteen months, expiring June 30 annually. Municipal and county grant consulting and event-planning procurements follow RFP structures with longer evaluation cycles and higher fee bases.

Salt Lake City School District is the repeat buyer, having posted four approved-vendor-list RFQs between July and October 2026, with response dates of August 13, October 6, September 14, and October 28, 2026. The City of Bartow, Florida posted an RFQ for grant consulting services on an as-needed basis with responses due September 16, 2026, seeking a proactive, embedded consultant to monitor federal, state, and local funding landscapes and identify opportunities without prompting. Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District in Texas issued a District Fundraiser Services RFP with responses due June 30, 2027. Region 7 Purchasing Cooperative in Texas, serving multiple school districts, solicited educational activities and supplies catalog discount bids (EDACT2628) on July 30, 2026, with estimated two-year expenditures of $40.677 billion across 136 previous awards. The City of Dallas issued an RFP for MLK Parade Planning with responses due July 10, 2026, and a Commercial Paper Liquidity Provider RFP due May 22, 2026. The City of South Salt Lake posted a $75,000 RFP for Downtown Brand Strategy Development and Execution due May 29, 2026. Activity clusters in Utah (Salt Lake City School District and South Salt Lake) and Texas (Cypress-Fairbanks, Region 7, Dallas), with Florida representation limited to grant consulting.