NIGP 95293: Try-Out Employment

NIGP 95293 Try-Out Employment, an Item code, encompasses subsidized employment programs, job training and coaching services, and temporary staffing arrangements that state and local governments use to connect welfare-to-work participants and other job-seekers with employers while managing wage subsidies or providing flexible staffing for departmental needs. Recent solicitations show municipalities and counties procuring try-out employment services through two distinct pathways: structured subsidized employment programs administered by social services departments that reimburse employers on tiered wage-subsidy bases to place CalWORKs clients into paid work, and general temporary employment staffing services where cities contract with staffing vendors to fill administrative, professional, and labor positions across multiple departments. Issuing bodies include city purchasing departments (Temple, Texas; Santa Monica, California) and county social services agencies (Solano County, California), with the latter dominating the welfare-to-work try-out employment space through multiple ongoing and time-bound RFIs seeking both service providers and employer partners.

California dominates recent activity under this code, with Solano County operating two concurrent RFIs—one time-bound closing April 2, 2026, and a second open and continuous opportunity with a stated due date of May 19, 2027—both seeking organizations to deliver job training, job coaching, and placement services to CalWORKs clients through subsidized wage reimbursement (100 percent for the first three months, declining to 25 percent by month six, with extension options). Santa Monica issued an RFP for its Human Services Grants Program (due December 14, 2026) soliciting nonprofit organizations to operate programs addressing community needs, with funding contingent on annual City Council approval and grantees choosing between a 30 percent cash-match option or a living-wage option paying $25.00 per hour with no match required. The City of Temple, Texas posted a Request for Proposals (due June 3, 2026) for temporary employment services divided into administrative/professional staffing and non-clerical labor, with one primary award intended per section and pricing evaluated on markup percentages applied to hourly rates. These opportunities reveal activity concentrated in California's welfare-to-work ecosystem and episodic municipal temporary-staffing procurement, with no incumbent vendors identified across the recent solicitations.