The Contractor shall provide a comprehensive Integrated Pest Management {IPM) Plan for the buildings and other areas specified herein. The submitted Plan shall be in accordance with the District's IPM Policy. IPM is a process for achieving long-term, environmentally sound pest suppression through the use of a wide variety of technological and management practices. Control strategies in an IPM Plan should extend beyond the application of pesticides to include structural and procedural modifications that reduce the food, water, harborage, and access used by pests. The Contractor shall furnish all supervision, labor, materials, and equipment necessary to accomplish the survei!!ance, trapping, and pesticide application components of the IPM Plan. The Contractor shall also provide detailed, site-specific recommendations for structural and procedural modifications necessary to achieve pest prevention. Pests Included. The Contractor shall adequately suppress the following pests: • Indoor populations of commensal rodents {e.g., Norway and roof rats, house mice), cockroaches, ants (including, but not limited to, fire ants and pharaoh ants *), flies, spiders, and any other arthropod pests not specifically excluded from the contract. • Populations of the above pests that are located outside of the specified buildings, but within areas immediately adjacent to buildings. • Winged termite swarms emerging indoors. • Termites, carpenter ants and other wood-destroying organisms. • Mosquitoes. • Birds, bats, snakes, and all other vertebrates other than commensal rodents. • Peststhat primarily feed on outdoor vegetation.
