1. GENERAL. This Request for Proposals (RFP) is issued by the City of Miami Beach, Florida (the “City”), as the means for prospective Bidders to submit their qualifications, proposed scopes of work, and cost proposals (the “proposal”) to the City for the City’s consideration as an option in achieving the required scope of services and requirements as noted herein. All documents released in connection with this solicitation, including all appendixes and addenda, whether included herein or released under separate cover, comprise the solicitation and are complementary to one another and together establish the complete terms, conditions, and obligations of the Bidders and, subsequently, the successful Bidder(s) (the “contractor[s]”) if this RFP results in an award.
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2. PURPOSE.
For approximately four years, the City has had an agreement for grounds maintenance for right-of-way areas, causeways, parking facilities, Lincoln Road mall, Redevelopment Agency, city buildings, and coastal areas. The current term of the agreement expires on June 23, 2025. To consider a replacement agreement, this Request for Proposals (RFP) seeks proposals from qualified firms to provide routine landscape maintenance services consisting primarily of landscape and irrigation maintenance services in accordance with the terms, conditions, and specifications contained herein. Proposals shall include all labor, equipment, and materials needed to perform those duties outlined in Appendix A, Minimum Requirements and Specifications, which include, but are not limited to, mowing, edging, line trimming, irrigation system operation maintenance/repair, litter retrieval and waste disposal, pruning, mulching, weeding, landscape maintenance, pesticide and fertilizer applications, turf management, and replacement of plants as required
2.1. Interested Parties. In accordance with the instructions of Section 0300, interested parties are invited to submit proposals with detailed information demonstrating their experience in landscape and irrigation maintenance services. A Pre-proposal conference will be held in accordance with Section 0100, Sub-sections 6 and 7. All proposals will be evaluated in accordance with the qualitative criteria found in Section 0400, regardless of the group for which a cost proposal is submitted. Cost proposal(s) may be submitted for one or more of the groups defined in Subsection 3 below and will be evaluated in accordance with the quantitative criteria found in Section 0400.