NIGP 96338: Fees, Credit Card

NIGP 96338 Fees, Credit Card is an Item code capturing state and local procurement of payment processing infrastructure, card management systems, and merchant transaction services that support debit card programs, purchasing-card compliance solutions, prepaid card issuance and tracking, and merchant payment processing across municipal departments and public health systems. State and local governments buy this work to process routine financial transactions—utility payments, park fees, healthcare billing, and employee or client benefits distribution—through secure, PCI-compliant platforms integrated with existing ERP and point-of-sale systems. Issuing bodies soliciting under this code include city procurement offices (Alexandria, Fort Worth, Kingman), county treasurers and health authorities (San Mateo County), state human-services agencies (Illinois Department of Children and Family Services), and county records and tax offices, with no single repeat buyer dominating the recent opportunity set.

Recent activity spans Virginia, Texas, Arizona, California, Florida, and Illinois. The City of Alexandria, Virginia posted RFP 2017 on July 10, 2026 (due August 20, 2026) for Transportation Stipend Card Management Services—a three-year prepaid debit card solution serving 750 participants scaling to 827 by Year 3, requiring PCI DSS v4.0 compliance, SOC 2 Type II certification, and 99.9% uptime with integrated fraud monitoring and real-time reporting. The City of Fort Worth, Texas issued an RFI and Sources Sought notice (posted July 8, 2026, due August 10, 2026) for automated purchasing-card compliance controls to enforce vendor spending thresholds and integrate with Oracle PeopleSoft without custom development. The City of Kingman, Arizona solicited merchant card processing services for utility IVR and parks point-of-sale systems via RFP 2026-RFP-005 (due May 28, 2026), emphasizing system integration with Civic Plus and Selectron and transaction-fee transparency. San Mateo County's Treasurer-Tax Collector's Office issued RFP 1520025002 for merchant credit card services processing $16.4 million in fiscal 2024 transactions across healthcare, parks, and recorder functions. The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services issued Invitation for Bid 26-418DCFS-PROCU-B-50505 (due April 27, 2026) for non-reloadable prepaid gift cards with a ten-year term, 4,700 annual physical cards, and $3 million in aggregate annual loads, requiring a two percent Business Enterprise Program utilization goal.