UNSPSC 81101509: Airport engineering

UNSPSC 81101509 Airport engineering is a Commodity-tier code that covers professional planning, design, and engineering services for airport infrastructure and capital improvement projects, including master planning, layout plan preparation, obstruction surveys, environmental assessments, and construction administration at public airports nationwide. State and local governments soliciting under this code include city aviation departments, county aviation authorities, regional airport authorities, and municipal airport agencies; TxDOT Aviation Division acts as a procurement agent for multiple Texas airports. Recent activity spans planning services (Airport Layout Plan updates and obstruction surveys), engineering design for pavement and taxiway rehabilitation, on-call engineering master agreements, and specialized studies such as air service development and safety analysis. A representative procurement from TxDOT Aviation Division (City of Clifton, RFQ 26ALCLFTN00011, responses due August 6, 2026) seeks qualifications to prepare an Airport Layout Plan and 18B Obstruction Survey aligned with FAA Master Plan Advisory Circular standards, with evaluation weighted equally across professional qualifications, recent airport planning experience, ability to meet schedules, and proposed technical approach. Another representative opportunity from the City of Thomasville, Georgia (PE66084NONST2026000000057, responses due June 11, 2026) is an ITB for construction of a new taxiway, apron, pavement markings, and access road at Thomasville Regional Airport.

The code sees concentrated recent activity in Texas and Georgia, with TxDOT Aviation Division issuing multiple RFQs for airport master planning and obstruction surveys across Texas municipalities (Clifton, Calhoun County, Hamilton, Muleshoe, Clarksville, Wills Point, Dumas, Bowie, and Woodville), and the Georgia Department of Transportation pre-qualification system driving a cluster of airport capital improvement procurements through counties and cities (Ware County, Cartersville, LaGrange, Thomson-McDuffie, Peachtree City, and West Georgia Regional Airport Authority). Opportunities are distributed across planning (qualifications-based selection under FAA Advisory Circular 150/5100-14D), design and construction administration (five-year master agreements with task-order-based compensation), and hard-bid construction work (taxiway, apron, and pavement rehabilitation). Most planning and design solicitations are qualifications-based RFQs with DBE goals of zero percent; construction work is typically advertised as sealed-bid ITBs or IFBs subject to Davis-Bacon prevailing wage requirements and federal Buy American preferences. The code includes significant activity in specialized services—air service development (County of Orange, John Wayne Airport, RFP 2802798901GL, cooperative purchasing on an on-call basis), airport safety planning (Tuolumne County, RFQ for SS4A Action Plan update and safety analysis), and airfield lighting products through cooperative purchasing vehicles (Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, RFxPremier Master Agreement opportunity, proposals due August 7, 2026).