# My Florida Marketplace #ITB -17200

DJJ Pine Hills Lawn Care and Grounds Services

**Posted:** October 07, 2026
**Respond By:** December 01, 2026
**Identifier:** ITB -17200
**NAICS:** 561730

The Florida Department of Juvenile Justice’s Pine Hills grounds-services notice covers recurring lawn care and storm cleanup, with related Main Campus vendor proposals also included in the supplied materials.
- **Government buyer:** Florida Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ), Purchasing & Procurement; the primary service location is the Pine Hills facility in Orlando, a roughly 26-acre site. Other attachments reference the DJJ Main Campus, including a buyer identified as Nadine Medlin Childs.
- **Requested Pine Hills services:** Routine mowing, edging, trimming and weed eating; blowing paved areas; litter and debris removal; one-time initial bushhog cutting and clearing (quantity 1); gutter-debris removal at three buildings; and as-needed storm/hurricane debris cleanup and tree removal. No fixed quantities are supplied for recurring or event-based services.
  - Routine service is weekly during April–September and every 14 days during November–March.
  - Mechanical edging is required; chemical edging is not performed. Equipment may be on site only while service is being performed.
- **Additional Main Campus items in the attachments:** Full-service landscape maintenance from Elite Creations Landscape Design & Maintenance LLC (12 monthly units) and Baker Commercial Landscaping, Inc. (12 monthly units); optional annual mulch application from Elite (quantity 1); and 28 bags of Designer Red Mulch listed in Baker’s proposal. Elite’s proposal describes 50 mowing cycles annually in one section and 44 visits in another.
- **Vendors named:** Empyre Landscaping appears in Pine Hills bid tabulation materials; Elite Creations Landscape Design & Maintenance LLC and Baker Commercial Landscaping, Inc. appear in Main Campus proposals. The supplied materials do not clearly establish a selected Pine Hills awardee.
- **Notable requirements:** Contractors must hold the required Florida lawn-care service license and maintain required liability and workers’ compensation coverage. The attachments also describe daily service logs, monthly invoices, performance standards and potential liquidated damages. Additional funding may be allocated before storm cleanup.
- **OEMs/products:** No equipment or product OEMs or part numbers are specified. The only separately listed product is Designer Red Mulch, 28 bags, in a Main Campus proposal.

### Description

The Florida Department of Juvenile Justice is soliciting bids for lawn care services at Pine Hills, located at 8500 Laurel Hill Road, Orlando, Florida. The scope includes lawn mowing and related trimming, edging, debris removal, and storm debris cleanup services. The solicitation document states an initial three-year term with renewal options. Bids are to be submitted by mail or delivered in person; the attached Q&A states the bid proposal due date is November 6, 2026, while the portal lists December 1, 2026 as the response deadline.

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