# City of Chicago #57075,5

Chicago Department of Aviation airport landscaping and irrigation services

**Posted:** August 04, 2026
**Respond By:** December 01, 2026
**Identifier:** 57075,5
**NAICS:** 561730

The City of Chicago Department of Aviation is seeking comprehensive landscaping and irrigation services for O’Hare and Midway International Airports.
- **Buyer:** City of Chicago — Chicago Department of Aviation; buyer contact named in the attachment: Christopher Kusper. No office-level detail is provided.
- **Scope:** Year-round landscape and irrigation maintenance, seasonal flowers, plant removal and relocation, new and replacement planting and lawns, pavers, site furnishings, vegetated roofs, irrigation materials and repairs, and winter inspections.
- **OEMs and named catalog brands:** **Unilock, Whitacre Greer, Wausau Tile, Rainbird, Hunter, Toro, Keystone, Versa-Lok, Landscape Forms, Dura Art Stone, Tournesol Sitework, and Forms and Surfaces.** These are named as catalog sources; the documents do not identify a single prime vendor.
- **Quantities and part numbers:** O’Hare and Midway maintenance, 5 each (9127305); irrigation labor, 5,000 (9127305); replacement-work labor, 12,500 (9127305); new-work labor, 2,500 (9127305); winter maintenance, 15 seasons per airport (9127342). Other catalog, planting, lawn, and materials line items generally have quantity 1; the materials allowance line shows 452,250.
- **Notable requirements:** Airport access and security, staffing and reporting, sustainability, and plant-health requirements apply. O’Hare and Midway have distinct maintenance scopes; O’Hare lawn care excludes mowing and edging along paved surfaces. The attachment describes a 60-month contract term.

### Description

The City of Chicago is soliciting bids for Target Market Comprehensive Landscaping Services for use by the Chicago Department of Aviation. The notice identifies this as a Work Service solicitation and describes a sealed bid process. A pre-solicitation conference is scheduled at 10510 W. Zemke Road, Building 804, Chicago, IL 60666. Responses are due December 1, 2026, and questions are due October 6, 2026.

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