NIGP 95293: Try-Out Employment

NIGP 95293 Try-Out Employment is an Item code describing subsidized work-experience and workforce-development contracts that state and local governments use to place disadvantaged or transitional workers into temporary paid employment with employers, often with government wage reimbursement that phases down over a defined period. Recent solicitations show state and local buyers are pursuing two primary flavors: welfare-to-work programs where governments reimburse employers for hiring disadvantaged clients (CalWORKs participants, TANF-eligible individuals), and general temporary staffing contracts where municipalities and counties contract with staffing agencies to fill administrative, technical, and labor-category positions across departments. Counties and cities are the dominant issuing bodies, followed by special-purpose workforce authorities operating under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act. Representative recent opportunities include the County of Solano's Expanded Subsidized Employment Program (RFI, responses due April 2, 2026, later extended as open and continuous through May 19, 2027) seeking job-training and job-coaching partners to place CalWORKs clients with employer partners on tiered wage-subsidy schedules; the City of Temple, Texas's Temporary Employment Services procurement (RFP, due June 3, 2026) seeking administrative/professional and labor-category staffing through a single primary contractor per section; the City of Atlanta's One-Stop Operator services (IFB with prequalification, due May 13, 2026) for WIOA-compliant workforce coordination; and Collier County's Planning and Regulation Staffing (RFP, due March 12, 2026) providing hourly augmented personnel for building, code, and planning functions at approximately one million dollars annually.

Geographic activity spans California (Solano County), Texas (Temple), Georgia (Atlanta, DeKalb County), Colorado (Boulder County), Florida (Collier County), Pennsylvania (Montgomery County), and New Mexico (Albuquerque), with no single state dominating recent procurement volume. The issuing-body mix includes county governments (Solano, Boulder, Collier, DeKalb, Montgomery), municipal departments (Temple, Atlanta, Albuquerque), and state or regional workforce boards operating under WIOA. Collier County's 5-point local-vendor preference for businesses maintaining Collier or Lee County addresses and Solano County's open RFI structure (no incumbent named, continuous submissions accepted) reflect variation in competitive scope. Insurance requirements are substantial and consistent: general liability minimum $500,000 to $1 million, professional liability $1 million where required, and workers' compensation at statutory limits. Performance-based pricing—fixed hourly rates with markup percentages, tiered wage-subsidy reimbursement declining monthly, or volume-scaled task-order pricing—dominates contract structure over fixed awards.