NIGP 98879: Ski Trail Maintenance and Repair

NIGP Item 98879, Ski Trail Maintenance And Repair, covers park and recreation infrastructure reconstruction and redevelopment work solicited by municipal recreation departments and county governments. Recent opportunities under this code include comprehensive park redevelopment planning, recreational facility reconstruction (tennis centers, nature trails), and bridge replacement projects that involve site preparation, design, construction coordination, and ongoing maintenance. The work encompasses design-build or design-bid-build delivery models in which jurisdictions solicit either engineering and architectural qualifications for planning phases or sealed construction bids for implementation, with contract terms extending through project completion and sometimes including post-construction management responsibilities.

State and local buyers for this code include city recreation and parks departments (Augusta, Georgia), county departments (DeKalb County, Georgia; Santa Clara County, California), and municipal engineering offices (City of Brownsville, Texas). Recent solicitations span Georgia, Texas, and California. Representative opportunities include the Augusta Recreation and Parks Department's RFQ #26-906 for redevelopment and ongoing management of Vernon Forrest Park (response date August 14, 2026), DeKalb County's ITB 2026-076-ITB for reconstruction of the DeKalb Tennis Center including IT infrastructure (response date July 13, 2026), the City of Brownsville's IFB for the Southmost Nature Trail Phase III, an 8-foot to 12-foot wide concrete hike and bike trail extending 10,138 linear feet (response date May 21, 2026), and Santa Clara County's ITB-RDA-FY26-0559 for the Red Fox Creek Bridge #37C0172 replacement, a precast concrete bridge project with 92 bid items (response date March 5, 2026). Federal funding and prevailing wage requirements apply to some procurements; M/WBE and state HUB program preferences appear in Georgia and Texas solicitations respectively.