NIGP 95860: Incentive Management Program Services (Safety, etc.)

NIGP 95860 Incentive Management Program Services (Safety, Etc.), an Item code, encompasses technical consulting, program administration, and performance analysis work that state and local governments use to design, evaluate, and operate incentive programs spanning energy efficiency, economic development, workforce, health care, and community investment. Recent solicitations show government buyers procuring energy performance contracting services, incentive processor vendors to administer payouts, economic development incentive analysis and effectiveness studies, performance audits of research endowments, and consulting support for tribal health program engagement and incentive coordination. Issuing bodies include state departments (Washington Department of Commerce, Washington Health Care Authority), counties (Boulder County, Colorado; Pulaski County, Arkansas), and cities (Jackson, Mississippi; Detroit, Michigan; Richardson, Texas; College Park, Georgia). The scope of work centers on quantifying program outcomes, processing and issuing incentive payments at scale, conducting return-on-investment analysis, and building or managing delivery infrastructure for targeted incentive distribution.

Activity spreads across multiple regions with recent concentration in the Pacific Northwest (Washington State), Mountain West (Colorado), South (Mississippi, Georgia, Texas, Arkansas), and Midwest (Detroit). Representative opportunities include the City of Jackson's energy performance contracting RFQ (response due July 7, 2026) seeking an Energy Services Company to deliver investment-grade audits and guaranteed energy savings across municipal facilities; Boulder County's Incentives Processor RFP (response due April 24, 2026) to manage $100,000 to $10,000,000 in annual energy efficiency and building electrification incentive payouts to 100 to 5,000 clients annually; the City of Richardson's Commercial and Residential Economic Development Incentive Analysis RFP (response due February 26, 2026) for return-on-investment and effectiveness studies; and the Washington Department of Commerce's Andy Hill Cancer Research Endowment Performance Audit RFP (response due July 20, 2026), a $150,000 SBE/VBE set-aside contract. Cooperative purchasing vehicles and multistate activity remain minimal in the recent pipeline; procurement is driven by individual agency program administration and compliance needs rather than shared regional or national cooperative frameworks.