City of Newport Beach PlanetBids #27-13

Seven-year landscape maintenance for Newport Beach parks, facilities, and Civic Center

The City of Newport Beach is seeking a seven-year landscape-maintenance contractor for roughly 100 parks and facilities, including the Civic Center. - Buyer: City of Newport Beach; Municipal Operations Department oversees the work. Jackie Nguyen, Senior Buyer, is identified as the RFP administrator. - Scope and scale: Approximately 338.83 acres of parks and facilities, covering turf, athletic fields, trees, shrubs, planting areas, natural areas, hardscapes, irrigation, and related grounds maintenance. The contractor must provide labor, equipment, materials, vehicles, and supervision, with a minimum staffing level of 43 employees. - Routine services: Vegetation and turf care; mowing, fertilizing, aerating and weed control; shrub and tree maintenance; irrigation programming, monitoring, repair and water conservation; pest and disease control; litter removal; plant replacement; hardscape, drainage, drinking-fountain, sand and wood-chip area maintenance; roadway clearance; and reporting safety concerns. Work also includes synthetic turf at the Dog Park, programming and monitoring the Civic Center's Navimow system, and homeless-encampment cleanup. - Annual planting and turf quantities: 6,000 one-gallon plants and 6,000 five-gallon plants with mulch; 356 flats of premium seasonal color; and 700,000 square feet of rolled Bandera Hybrid Bermuda sod, or equal. No part numbers are specified. - Additional work: On-call, as-needed services include tasks such as aeration, dethatching, edging, fertilizing, mowing, seeding, power-washing, tree work, planting, irrigation repairs, labor, equipment, mulching, and disposal or recycling. - OEM/brand: Navimow, manufactured by Segway, is the only named equipment brand; the City requests programming and monitoring of its Civic Center turf system, not a Navimow purchase. - Named prospective bidders/vendors: AGC San Diego; CA Traffic Solution; DMS Facility Services; EMTS, Inc.; Green West Landscape Maintenance Inc.; GroundLevel Landscape Architecture; GSA Contract Services, LLC; M Engineering Contractor; Marina Landscape Inc.; Mariposa Landscapes, Inc.; MCE Corporation; Merchants Landscape.com; Nieves Landscape Inc.; Park West Landscape Maintenance, Inc.; Scapepros Landscaping; SGD Enterprises; South County Landscapes; Triangle Landscaping & Desing; United Pacific Services Inc.; and Westturf Landscape Management Inc. - Notable requirements: A minimum 43-person workforce, a C-27 contractor license, required workers' compensation, general-liability and automobile-liability coverage, and disclosure of insurance exceptions or self-insured retentions. Pricing is to include insurance costs; the proposed cost schedule includes a fixed 2% annual CPI increase beginning with the first contract anniversary. - Term: Seven years; performance start and end dates are not specified. This is a services contract, not an annual subscription.

Description

The City of Newport Beach is seeking proposals for landscape maintenance services for City parks and facilities, including the Civic Center areas. The selected proposer will provide labor, equipment, materials, and supervision for services across approximately 100 parks and facilities and 300 acres. The scope includes turf, shrub, and tree care; irrigation maintenance; litter and hardscape cleaning; pest control; plant replacement; and other grounds and site maintenance tasks. The anticipated contract term is seven years, and the City may make multiple awards.

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