NIGP 96163: Relocation Services for Personnel

NIGP 96163 Relocation Services For Personnel, an Item code, covers professional relocation assistance, project coordination, and move logistics services that state and local governments procure for displaced residents, businesses, and personnel. Recent opportunities show a mix of issuing bodies — municipalities, county departments, and HUD-assisted housing authorities — soliciting relocation planning, eligibility determination, benefit claims processing, resident advisory services, and compliance documentation under federal regulations (49 CFR Part 24, HUD Handbook 1378), alongside separate commercial moving and logistics support for equipment and operational needs. The scope extends from comprehensive resident relocation services tied to public housing repositioning and property acquisitions to routine transportation logistics for county elections operations.

The geographic spread of recent activity spans Florida, Arizona, and Georgia. The City of Tucson Housing & Community Development Department issued RFP 260195 due April 30, 2026, seeking qualified relocation consultants for HUD-assisted public housing projects, with evaluation weighted on public housing relocation experience (20 points), pricing (20 points), and methodology (15 points), requiring proposers to demonstrate three completed RAD conversions or Section 18 projects within seven years and staff with minimum three to seven years of direct relocation experience; the pre-submittal meeting was held April 22, 2026 via Microsoft Teams. DeKalb County, Georgia released ITB 2026-033-ITB on May 26, 2026 for commercial moving services supporting the Department of Voter Registration & Elections, due June 24, 2026 at 3:00 p.m., covering transportation of election equipment between the county warehouse and polling sites throughout the county under an annual contract with renewal options. The City of DeBary, Florida posted a separate infrastructure bid (Solicitation 0315) that, while labeled as irrigation improvements, appears to reflect misclassification within relocation taxonomy and does not represent typical work under this code.