NIGP 961: Miscellaneous Services, No. 1 (Not Otherwise Classified)

NIGP 961 Miscellaneous Services, No. 1 (Not Otherwise Classified) is a Class code that rolls up state and local government procurement activity spanning transportation, environmental remediation, infrastructure utilities, technical services, and administrative support across a wide range of jurisdictions where no other NIGP classification applies. State and local buyers under this code are currently soliciting school transportation contracts, fuels-reduction and mechanical site-prep work on forestland, fuel hedging and commodity risk-management services for transit agencies, interpretation and translation services, environmental planning and shoreline adaptation consulting, utilities infrastructure maintenance on task-order basis, laboratory courier services, hazardous-materials testing, water treatment design, herbicide application, and municipal marshals services. The issuing bodies range across school districts (Swansea, Fairhaven, and Harvard Public Schools in Massachusetts), state departments (Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources, Massachusetts Department of Transportation), counties (Tuolumne and Hillsborough in California and Florida), special districts (Tohopekaliga Water Authority in Florida, Deseret Public Infrastructure District in Utah), cities (Tucson, Meriden, Phoenix, Wichita, and New Haven), and regional transit authorities (Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority). No single category or jurisdiction dominates recent activity; rather, the code captures highly heterogeneous service needs across multiple sectors and geographies.

Recent opportunities cluster geographically in California (Tuolumne County hosting multiple fuels-reduction and site-prep RFPs; Orange County procurement), Florida (FDOT utilities relocation, Tohopekaliga Water Authority), Massachusetts (MBTA fuel hedging, state energy department interpretation services, multiple school district transportation contracts), Connecticut (city and municipal water-infrastructure work), and Arizona (Tucson environmental and water utilities). Representative recent solicitations include Swansea School Department's IFB for regular education transportation with response due November 18, 2026; Florida Department of Transportation's utility-relocation RFQ for John Young Parkway intersection improvements due November 19, 2026; County of Tuolumne's two parallel RFPs for mechanical site preparation and fuels reduction on approximately 1,300 acres of forest (both due November 13, 2026); Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority's RFP for fuel hedging services due November 19, 2026; and County of Orange's RFP for Senior Non-Emergency Medical Transportation across three service areas with estimated three-year value of $5.506 million and response due October 23, 2026. The code's breadth and the dispersion of recent activity across unrelated service categories signal that this classification functions as a catch-all for state and local needs that fall outside standard commodity or service taxonomy, making it less useful for targeting acquisitions than for understanding procurement volume in specific geographic markets or customer agencies.