The request is for the services of Facilities Maintenance at Canal Place (the “Authority''), an Independent State Agency of the State of Maryland. The applicant (the “Contractor”) will need to 1) provide janitorial services in the interior public areas of the Western Maryland Railway Station, the Canal Place Preservation and Development Authority offices, and the public areas of the Shops at Canal Place; 2) provide building maintenance and repair services for the Western Maryland Railway Station, the Shops at Canal Place, and the Canal Boat Replica; 3) provide exterior property maintenance and lawn care services for the Station Plaza, the Station Square parking lot, the Harrison Street parking lot, the Wills Creek Esplanade and pedestrian bridge, the Canal Street Promenade and Trestle Walk, the Crescent Lawn Festival Grounds, and Shops at Canal Place plaza; and 4) supervise temporary and volunteer workers from time to time. The Station plaza, the Station Square public and tenant parking lots, and the handicapped parking area fronting the station consists of a 2-acre parcel containing a landscaped parking lot, brick-paved plaza and promenade, and a half-acre lawn area with a playground and picnic tables. The plaza is one of many public open areas utilized for a variety of events and interpretive displays. The Crescent Lawn Festival Grounds is a 4-acre lot, comprising approximately 2.5 acres of festival grounds and 4 retail buildings and a brick plaza. It is bordered by a railroad trestle curving behind the property that is known as the Trestle Walk. The Wills Creek Esplanade at the track level of the Western Maryland Railway Station extends from Baltimore Street up to and including the pedestrian bridge crossing Wills Creek.
