NIGP 96104: Artists (Including Digital Artists)

NIGP 96104 Artists (Including Digital Artists), an Item code, encompasses design, fabrication, and installation services for custom signage, exhibit displays, murals, public art commissions, and related visual and creative work that state and local governments procure for parks, civic facilities, museums, cultural institutions, and public spaces. The scope spans traditional sculptural and painted artwork through specialized installations—interactive museum exhibits with integrated electronics, environmental graphics, heritage interpretation panels, holiday lighting design, and branded environmental systems—reflecting a broadening of what "artist services" means in government procurement beyond fine art into applied design and technical fabrication. Issuing bodies include county park departments, municipal arts and planning divisions, state cultural agencies and historic preservation authorities, K–12 school districts, special-purpose districts such as water conservancies, and academic institutions. Recent activity shows county park systems and city planning offices as repeat buyers, with the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, the California African American Museum, and Salt Lake County Arts & Culture appearing multiple times. Geographic concentration is strongest in California and Utah, with secondary activity in Texas, Massachusetts, Georgia, Florida, Illinois, and Minnesota; the remaining solicitations are scattered across Arizona, Colorado, and other states.

Representative recent opportunities illustrate the breadth of work: the County of Orange (California), through its OC Community Resources department, issued an IFB on July 17, 2026, for custom sign fabrication services across 40 parks with response due August 14, 2026, carrying a 5% local small business preference and three-year initial term with renewal options; the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum (State of Illinois) posted an exhibit-fabrication RFP on July 13, 2026, for a permanent 1,000-square-foot interactive children's exhibit with mandatory pre-bid meeting on July 23, 2026, due date August 17, 2026, and a 23% minority/women/disability-owned business set-aside; the City of Lawrenceville (Georgia) issued an RFQ on July 7, 2026, for design management and production services supporting marketing and creative projects with due date August 6, 2026, open to pre-qualified graphic design and marketing firms on an as-needed basis; Hillsborough County (Florida) solicited interactive display exhibits for a veterans memorial center on July 2, 2026, with due date August 6, 2026, estimated project value of $800,000, cybersecurity compliance requirements, and mandatory pre-proposal conference on July 9, 2026. Across these and numerous other recent procurements, contract values range from $15,000 to $987,400, response windows cluster in the 30–45 day range, and persistent buyer demand spans signage, environmental graphics, public art commissions, interpretive exhibits, and digital/interactive installations.