City of Chicago #57075,3

Chicago Department of Aviation airport landscape and irrigation services

The City of Chicago’s Chicago Department of Aviation is seeking a contractor for five years of landscape and irrigation services at O’Hare and Midway airports. - Buyer: City of Chicago, Chicago Department of Aviation; procurement contact listed as Christopher Kusper. - Scope: Year-round landscape and irrigation maintenance, seasonal flowers, plant removal and installation, pavers, walls, site furnishings, vegetated roofs, lawns, irrigation repairs, and winter maintenance at both airports. - Scale: The schedule has 32 service and pricing lines, including 16,960 annual landscape labor hours per airport and 5,000 irrigation labor hours. It also includes 12,500 hours for replacement work, 2,500 hours for new work, and a materials allowance of 452,250 as listed in the schedule. - Named OEMs and catalog brands: Unilock, Whitacre Greer, Wausau Tile, Rain Bird, Hunter, Toro, Keystone, Versa-Lok, Landscape Forms, Dura Art Stone, Tournesol, and Forms and Surfaces. These catalogs cover paving, irrigation, walls, site furnishings, and sitework products. - Notable requirements: Airport security access, minimum staffing and equipment, reporting, sustainability, and MBE/WBE target-market participation. Landscape maintenance is principally seasonal, with a separate winter maintenance component. - Term and pricing: 60 months; prices are fixed for the first 36 months, with possible annual CPI adjustments thereafter capped at 5%. The City may extend the contract once for up to 181 days.

Description

The City of Chicago is soliciting bids for comprehensive landscaping services for the Chicago Department of Aviation. The opportunity is identified as a Work Service solicitation and includes a price schedule with multiple line items. Responses are due November 4, 2026, at 11:00 AM Central Time; questions are due October 6, 2026, at 4:00 PM Central Time. The source states that the target market is “Yes.”

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