NIGP 97238: Participant Costs, Stipends

NIGP 97238 Participant Costs, Stipends, an Item code, covers direct payments to individuals attending or participating in state and local government programs, events, or training initiatives. State and local governments buy stipends, honorariums, and participant reimbursements to support attendance at conferences, workshops, community engagement activities, workforce development programs, and advisory board meetings. The scope includes per-diem allowances, travel stipends, and session fees paid directly to participants rather than to vendors or service providers. Issuing bodies soliciting under this code span state departments, counties, cities, school districts, transit authorities, and special-purpose districts, though the nature of the work — direct participant payments often embedded in larger program budgets — means opportunities appear less frequently as standalone solicitations than as line items within broader RFPs or as routine purchasing handled outside formal competitive notice processes.

The source provided contains no recent state and local contract opportunities under NIGP 97238 Participant Costs, Stipends. Without posted solicitations, geographic concentration and representative recent opportunities cannot be characterized from current market activity. Business development professionals should monitor cooperative purchasing catalogs and state procurement portals for opportunities where stipend or participant-cost components appear as material contract deliverables within human services, workforce, education, or community-development RFPs.