A.Tree Removal. The Town of Bedford has the occasion to need tree removal on trees located on town property or in the right-of-way. Therefore, the town seeks to solicit bids from qualified vendors interested in performing this work. Some trees may need the resulting stumps ground down the vendor. The vendor awarded this contract will be expected to provide all necessary traffic control and to remove all resultant logs , branches and vegetative debris to the Town’s composting facility on Beaver Dam Road. All logs brought to the Town’s composting facility shall be less than 6 (six) feet in length. Vendors applying for this work shall have the following minimum equipment to devote to the Town of Bedford if deemed necessary by the Bedford Commissioner of Public Works: One forestry truck with a dump or box capable of receiving and transporting wood chips generated by tree and branch removal activities. One areal lift truck (i.e. bucket truck) with at least a 50’ arm reach, One mechanized brush chipper capable of chipping limbs up to 5” diameter that can blow the resulting wood chips into a truck mounted dump or box (also provided by the vendor on the forestry truck noted above.) One grapple truck (with a hydraulically actuated grapple claw capable of lifting log sections of at least 60” diameter with an integral dump body or box for transport and disposal of logs and debris. One mechanized stump grinding machine capable of grinding tree stumps up to 7’ diameter to a depth of at least 2” below grade. All mechanized equipment listed above shall be in the possession of the vendor at the time of the bid and shall be subject to inspection for operability and adequacy by the Commissioner of Public Works prior to awarding the bid or at any other time that the Commissioner deems it warranted. The vendor is expected to provide all necessary operators and laborers to operate all mechanized equipment listed within the tree removal and stump grinding sections of this contract (including traffic control.) Bucket truck and forestry truck operators shall be outfitted by the vendors with chain saws, pruning shears and other hand and power tools as necessary of sufficient size and power needed to execute tree and branch removal and job site clean up activities. B. Branch removal and tree thinning. The Town of Bedford has the occasion to need branch removal on trees located on town property or in the right-of-way. The town also needs to have branches thinned out from the crowns of trees as well. Therefore, the town seeks to solicit perhour price quotes from qualified vendors interested in performing this work. The vendor awarded this contract will be expected to provide all necessary traffic control and to remove all resultant vegetative debris to the Town’s composting facility on Beaver Dam Road. The vendor shall provide bid prices for each treatment option. Therefore, qualified tree removal contractors are asked to provide price quotes on a per hour basis for the provision of equipment and labor for branch removal and tree thinning.
