NIGP 96741: Fiber Products

NIGP 96741 Fiber Products, Item, encompasses fiber optic materials, cabling, installation components, and related infrastructure deployed in adaptive traffic control systems and roadway signalization networks that state and local governments are now soliciting for intelligent transportation system upgrades. The work state and local agencies are actually buying under this code includes fiber optic cabling, conduit, directional boring services, video detection systems, traffic controller assemblies with preemption capability, signal priority systems with GPS components, and system control equipment integrated into adaptive traffic control and fiber optics signal communication systems supporting smart traffic corridors. Issuing bodies soliciting under this code are county transportation and traffic engineering divisions managing capital roadway and signalization projects, with Broward County, Florida emerging as a repeat buyer executing multiple open-end indefinite-quantity contracts and project-specific deployments funded through transportation surtax proceeds.

Broward County accounts for all three recent opportunities in the source, representing activity in South Florida. Representative recent solicitations include Broward County's Pine Island Road Adaptive Traffic Control and Fiber Optics Systems ITB posted February 6, 2026, with responses due March 9, 2026, covering fiber optic signal communication system deployment along Pine Island Road from Orange Grove Drive to Broward Boulevard across nine signalized intersections in Davie and Plantation with a mandatory 30 percent County Business Enterprise participation goal; and Broward County's open-end Miscellaneous Traffic and Roadway Construction ITB posted March 10, 2026, due April 9, 2026, which includes fiber optic installation where applicable under unit-price FDOT pay item compensation with a 25 percent CBE goal and annual pass-thru allowances of $475,000. Both contracts require Florida Department of Transportation Pre-Qualification certificates for traffic control work, performance and payment bonds at 100 percent of contract value, and compliance with local preference and workforce investment program requirements where contract value exceeds $500,000.