NIGP 948: Health Related Services (see Class 952 for Human Services)

NIGP 948 Health Related Services is a Class code encompassing clinical and therapeutic services that state and local governments procure to support patient care, public health operations, and institutional medical functions. Recent solicitations reveal state and local buyers contracting for psychological services (pre-employment evaluations, fit-for-duty assessments, critical incident stress debriefings), non-emergency healthcare transportation (BLS, ALS, bariatric, and specialized patient transfers), mental health and substance-use programming, forensic pathology autopsy services, podiatry and nursing care, occupational and physical therapy for students with disabilities, virtual urgent care telehealth delivery, and EMT staffing for correctional facilities. The issuing-body mix spans state health and human services departments, county health systems and sheriffs' offices, school districts serving students with severe disabilities, municipal jails and correctional facilities, and county social services agencies. Recent activity concentrates in California (Orange County, Santa Clara County, Tuolumne County), Colorado (Denver Women's Correctional Facility, Boulder County Jail), Missouri (state schools for the severely disabled, state hospital), Utah (state hospital, local mental health authorities), Delaware, and Maryland; activity also appears in Massachusetts and Arizona.

Representative recent opportunities include the State of Delaware Department of Government Support Services issuing RFP GSS27756-PSYCH_SVCS for psychological services with proposals due November 12, 2026; the County of Santa Clara Health System requesting proposals for non-emergency healthcare transportation services (RFP RFPHHSFY270093) with responses due January 20, 2027; the Colorado Department of Corrections soliciting psychiatric nursing program services (RFP 20270000032) with proposals due October 30, 2026; Orange County, California requesting forensic pathology autopsy services (RFP RFP0173121602JL2) with proposals due October 30, 2026; and the Utah Department of Health and Human Services extending sole-source contracts for Coordinated Specialty Care mental health services to youth at clinical high-risk for psychosis (Contract 246135 Amendment 2, challenge period closing October 23, 2026). Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education has posted multiple IFBs for occupational therapy, physical therapy, and vision services at schools for the severely disabled with bids due early October 2026. Set-asides and preferences appear in several procurements, including DVBE and MBE certifications in California and Maryland small-business preferences in Maryland.