NIGP 96833: Ditch Maintenance

NIGP 96833 Ditch Maintenance, an Item code, encompasses clearing, grading, restoration, and vegetation removal from roadside ditches, canals, swales, and retention ponds across state and local infrastructure. State and local governments buy mechanical excavation and re-grading of earth-lined ditches, removal of vegetation and debris from canal flats and slopes, herbicide treatment and bank stabilization, cleaning of outfall structures and drainage pipes, and unit-cost or lump-sum maintenance contracts spanning hundreds of miles of conveyance systems. Issuing bodies include county commissioners' offices, school districts, cities, and special-purpose flood control districts; Pinellas County Schools, Hillsborough County, and Harris County Flood Control District appear as repeat buyers. Counties and municipalities dominate the activity, with school districts increasingly entering the market for retention-pond and swale maintenance at district-wide facility networks.

Recent activity concentrates in Florida, Georgia, and Texas. Pinellas County Schools posted an RFQ for maintenance and cleaning of retention ponds, ditches, and swales across 140 facilities with an estimated annual value of approximately $450,000 and a September 22, 2026 start date (due August 28, 2026); the contract offers two additional one-year renewals plus up to three thirty-day extensions. Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners issued an ITB for ongoing canal, roadside-ditch, and off-system mowing services with an estimated three-year value of $385,950 (due October 15, 2026). Harris County Flood Control District posted an ITB for general watershed repairs to six channels and reservoirs (due October 19, 2026). The City of Tampa's ITB for ditch re-grading and restoration maintenance services carried a $300,000 department budget with one-year initial term and four optional one-year renewals. The City of Palm Bay, Florida issued a re-bid for canal clearing on eight designated canals totaling 8,851 linear feet (due June 23, 2026). Mississippi counties—Grenada and Calhoun—solicited bank stabilization work on county roads under emergency watershed protection funding. Georgia counties in Bartow and Brooks posted construction and road-department operations work including drainage improvements. Most solicitations require E-Verify compliance, drug-free workplace certification, commercial general liability and workers' compensation insurance with $1 million combined single limits, and performance bonds; school-district buyers typically mandate Level 2 background screening and impose geographic radius restrictions (Pinellas County required 75-mile radius and five continuous years of business operation under the same legal entity).