NIGP 96139: Floral Designing and Arranging Services

NIGP 96139 Floral Designing and Arranging Services, an Item code, encompasses custom floral design, arrangement production, delivery, installation, and event stewardship services that state and local governments procure for university events, campus functions, and public celebrations. Recent solicitations show universities and education service centers buying comprehensive floral packages including consultation, premium sourcing, logistics, on-site management, and post-event breakdown, often bundled with landscape and park-amenity services in multi-disciplinary procurement efforts. The University of Texas at Austin has issued two separate RFPs for event floral services within the past four months, indicating steady demand from higher-education institutions. Issuing bodies soliciting under this code include universities, regional education cooperatives, and municipal park departments, with higher-education institutions appearing as repeat buyers when planning or renewing event-services contracts.

The University of Texas at Austin posted RFP 721-26062 for Floral Design Services on February 13, 2026, with proposals due March 6, 2026, seeking vendors with minimum 15 years' industry experience, Austin-area operations, and full licensure to support five to ten annual events of 20 to 500 attendees; the contract term runs two years from April 1, 2026, through March 31, 2028, with options for two additional one-year renewals and includes a mandatory Veteran Heroes United in Business subcontracting plan requirement. The same university reissued an updated solicitation (RFP 721-26075) on April 10, 2026, with proposals due May 22, 2026, under substantially similar terms and scope. Both Texas procurements weight evaluation heavily toward quality and methodology (45%), qualifications (15%), staffing resources (20%), and ability to meet needs (10%), with pricing at 10 percent, and require compliance with the Texas Prompt Payment Act and Texas Ethics Commission certifications. No recent opportunities were identified outside Texas or among state departments and municipalities in the block provided.