NIGP 96141: Global Positioning Systems Surveying Services

NIGP 96141 Global Positioning Systems Surveying Services is an Item code encompassing GPS-enabled survey equipment, software, and professional surveying services that state and local governments procure for infrastructure mapping, asset management, and field data collection. Recent solicitations show municipalities and special-purpose districts buying GPS survey hardware (Trimble GNSS receivers, data collectors, software suites), vehicle tracking systems with GPS telemetry and fleet management integration, and professional surveying and geospatial analysis services supporting infrastructure projects, transportation planning, and historic resource documentation. Issuing bodies span city planning and public works departments, municipal transit authorities, sewerage districts, and county transportation agencies. Cities of Austin, Tucson, DeBary, and Casselberry; Orange County Transportation Authority; Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District; and the City of Tybee Island have posted activity under or closely adjacent to this code in the past four months.

Recent activity concentrates in Florida, California, Texas, Wisconsin, and Georgia. Representative opportunities include Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District's IFB for Trimble Access GNSS Only with Catalyst Survey software and TDC6 data collectors (sealed bid due June 15, 2026), with hardware, software licensing, and three years of support and training; City of Tucson's RFP 260201 for a GPS vehicle tracking and management system covering approximately 1,005 municipal fleet vehicles with live tracking, geofencing, driver behavior analytics, and integration into Assetworks (proposals due August 5, 2026, through Axia Cooperative with estimated annual national purchase volume of $30 million); Orange County Transportation Authority's RFP for technical consulting services supporting Interstate 5 corridor microsimulation modeling using TransModeler software, with a $250,000 firm-fixed-price contract and proposals due April 21, 2026; and City of Tybee Island's RFP 2026-112 for Historic Resources Survey Update Phase I, including windshield survey, field survey, GNAHRGIS database entry, and historic mapping across up to 500 resources, with proposals due October 19, 2026 and a maximum budget of $20,500.