NIGP 98875: Roadside Maintenance Services (Including Mowing, etc.)

NIGP 98875 Roadside Maintenance Services (Including Mowing, Etc.), an Item code, encompasses the mowing, vegetation control, and grounds upkeep that state and local governments purchase across parks, medians, rights-of-way, landfills, airports, and utility facilities. Recent solicitations show municipalities and counties contracting for routine cycle mowing (weekly to monthly depending on growth season), trimming, edging, debris removal, herbicide application, and specialized work such as invasive plant removal and riparian management. The work typically runs multi-year with one to four optional renewals, priced on per-acre, per-cut, per-linear-foot, or fixed-cycle bases. Issuing bodies span city parks and recreation departments, county road and stormwater divisions, airport authorities, solid waste facilities, water treatment plants, and special-purpose districts; repeat buyers include the City of Tampa Parks and Recreation Department (multiple concurrent grounds maintenance contracts across north, south, downtown, and I-4 interchange zones), Sarasota County (preserve mowing, canal and drainage maintenance, invasive plant management), Collier County (large machine mowing across medians and rights-of-way), and DeKalb County (lawn and grounds maintenance at utility facilities).

The code sees heavy activity across Florida (Tampa, Sarasota, Hillsborough, Marion, Collier, and Broward counties; cities of Ocala, Fort Myers, Gainesville, St. Cloud, Palm Beach, and Miami-Dade region), Georgia (Atlanta, DeKalb, Bulloch, and Paulding counties; Augusta and Sandy Springs), Texas (Dallas, Lubbock, Gregg County, and Houston), and a secondary tier of recent opportunities in the Carolinas, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Colorado. Representative recent opportunities include McLennan County, Texas requesting mowing and grounds maintenance in city rights-of-way under RFB with an August 4, 2026 due date; City of Sandy Springs, Georgia soliciting city-wide landscaping services across Class A facilities through a two-phase RFQC with Phase I qualifications due July 27, 2026; City of Fitchburg, Wisconsin issuing dual ITBs for median turf maintenance (19 areas, 484,340 square feet, three-year contract, due July 16, 2026) and median landscape maintenance (13 areas, three-year term, due July 16, 2026); City of Tampa Parks and Recreation Department conducting multiple sheltered-market ITBs for grounds maintenance across north, south, and downtown parks under Small Local Business Enterprise set-asides with 5 percent bid discounts and estimated values ranging from $400,000 to $475,000; and Sarasota County soliciting on-demand mowing and vegetation management services at preserve and reserve properties under IFB with a three-year initial term and July 20, 2026 due date. Contractors pursuing this code face consistent qualification demands including three to five years of grounds maintenance experience, required certifications (Florida pesticide applicator, traffic control, arborist), minimum crew sizes (often 15–20 full-time and part-time personnel), specific equipment inventories, and insurance thresholds of $1 million general liability and $500,000 to $1 million auto liability; many jurisdictions weight experience and methodology heavily in evaluation and impose liquidated damages ($25–$250 per day or per incident) for missed schedules or reinspection failures.