NIGP 99312: Travel Agency Fees, Foreign Travel

NIGP 99312 Travel Agency Fees, Foreign Travel (Item) covers state and local procurement of international travel-trade representation, marketing coordination, and destination-promotion services that facilitate leisure and business travel bookings to U.S. destinations from overseas markets. Recent solicitations show county convention and visitors bureaus contracting for project specialists and international sales agencies that execute trade show participation, sales-mission coordination, tour-operator database management, media marketplace attendance, and quarterly market-intelligence reporting in specific geographic regions—particularly Latin America, Continental Europe, the United Kingdom and Ireland, and Spanish-speaking markets. Work is strictly project-based and performance-focused, with vendors managing event logistics, travel expenses, collateral distribution, and post-event analysis under firm all-inclusive budgets with no escalation mechanisms. The issuing bodies are county-level convention and visitors bureaus (specifically Broward County and Monroe County in Florida) and their parent county purchasing offices, both operating through electronic procurement platforms (BPRO and Bonfire) and evaluating vendors on personnel qualifications, detailed project methodology, three-year performance history with references, current workload capacity, and ability to deliver within time and budget.

Broward County's Greater Fort Lauderdale Convention and Visitors Bureau dominates recent activity in this code, with four open-end solicitations posted August–September 2026 targeting Continental Europe, United Kingdom and Ireland, and Spanish-speaking travel trade; each carried an estimated budget of $99,900 with response dates in early September 2026 and no set-asides applied. Monroe County Tourist Development Council issued RFP651 (posted October 1, 2026, due November 3, 2026) for Latin America Sales Agency services covering Brazil and Argentina with a three-year term commencing January 1, 2027 and compensation to be negotiated during finalist presentations. All sourcing is concentrated in Florida, with no recent opportunities identified in other states.