NIGP 95219: Community Garden Program

NIGP 95219 Community Garden Program, an Item code, covers the design, installation, enhancement, and maintenance of community gardens, urban agriculture spaces, and associated food production infrastructure that state and local governments operate or sponsor. Recent solicitations show that issuing bodies are procuring integrated services combining garden and landscape design, horticultural installation, ongoing maintenance, volunteer coordination, community education, and workforce development programming. The City of St. Petersburg's October 2026 RFI on community urban agriculture sought organizational capability statements for designing, installing, and maintaining community gardens and food forests across multiple city sites, while the City of Atlanta Department of Parks and Recreation's June 2026 statement of qualifications sought six-year-experienced community-based forestry contractors to plant and prune trees, coordinate volunteer engagement, and deliver education and youth employment programming citywide. These opportunities suggest issuing bodies are treating community garden and urban agriculture procurement as integrated environmental and social-service work rather than narrowly horticultural activity. Municipalities appear to be the primary buyers under this code, though the scope encompasses both standalone garden maintenance and broader urban tree canopy and forestry programs.

Geographic activity centers on the Southeast, with recent solicitations from St. Petersburg and Atlanta. The St. Petersburg RFI, due November 17, 2026, represents early-stage market research; the City has not committed to contract value, budget allocation, or a timeline for converting responses into formal procurement but stated the RFI would inform future competitive solicitation. The Atlanta SOQ, which closed June 17, 2026, advanced shortlisted offerors to Phase II pricing with an invitation for bid scheduled for June 24 and closing June 29, 2026; the scope included tree planting and maintenance targets (approximately 6,000 trees planted; 5,000 young trees pruned), volunteer invasive plant removal coordination, and community education programming, with multiple awards possible. Qualification requirements for Atlanta included six years of community forestry experience, a certified arborist or landscape architect on staff, a Georgia Commercial Pesticide Applicator's License, and commercial general liability insurance of $1,000,000 per occurrence minimum.