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<br /> <br /> <br />City of Sunny Isles Beach | ITB 20-08-01 City Landscaping Services 42 <br /> <br />SECTION 3 <br />Performance Standards & Technical Specifications <br /> <br /> <br />3.1 SCOPE OF SERVICES <br /> <br />The City of Sunny Isles Beach (the “City”) intends to secure the services of qualified, experienced <br />and licensed contractor(s) (the “Contractor”) with a minimum of five years experience to provide <br />Landscape Maintenance Services, in accordance with the terms, conditions and specifications <br />contained in this Invitation to Bid (ITB). It is the intent of this bid document that all work shall result <br />in compliance with the Performance Standards and Technical Specifications and all regulatory <br />requirements applicable to such project. Bidder shall provide proof that the company has been in <br />continuous operation for a minimum of five (5) years.* This experience shall consist of performing <br />similar work for a government agency during those entire 5 years. *A Bidder that has joined to create <br />a new company, has been purchased or undergone a name change, must have been in business a <br />minimum of 6 (six) months. The City reserves the right to accept a combination of experience <br />amongst owners from said previous companies in order to meet minimum requirements. <br /> <br />The Contractor shall provide all labor, materials, equipment, tools, qualified and certified supervision, <br />and other items and services both necessary and incidental to ensure that the Landscape <br />Maintenance Services are performed in a manner that will maintain a healthy landscape and present <br />a neat, clean, and professional appearance of all park and recreational facilities. The Work shall <br />include, but not be limited to, weeding, mowing, turf maintenance, edging, pruning, hedge trimming, <br />raking, sweeping, and vacuuming sidewalks, herbicide applications including preventive and <br />corrective applications, fertilization and pest management services using Integrated Pest <br />Management principles, irrigation system maintenance, monitoring and repair, maintaining and <br />replacing, if necessary, any plants lost due to negligence of the Contractor, seasonal color <br />replacement, removing graffiti within one (1) day of inspection with City’s approval, daily removal of <br />all litter including dead animals, shopping cart removal and litter pick up seven days per week, or as <br />defined by the City. The Contractor shall adhere to the City Noise Ordinance, and also the amendment <br />stating Contractors cannot blow debris onto other people’s properties, referenced in Chapter 193. <br /> <br />The intent of the following descriptions in this ITB is to convey the requirement that the various areas <br />listed in this ITB shall be maintained to a superior level such that they are viewed by the public as <br />the best maintained and most beautiful in all of Southern Florida. It is this standard that will be <br />required of the Bidders. <br /> <br />If the Contractor intends to use sub-contractors to perform any work on this contract, these sub- <br />contractors are subject to approval by the City, at its sole discretion. <br /> <br />3.1.1 In addition, the City will award to the lowest responsive responsible bidder as a <br />tertiary (third in order) bidder for services relating to disaster debris removal, in the event <br />that the City’s primary and secondary debris removal contractor has defaulted. Disasters <br />include natural events such as hurricanes, tornadoes, windstorms, floods, and fires, as well <br />as man-made events or emergencies such as civil unrest and terrorist attacks. After a