16-Beehives SOW.pdf
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- Bee Hives - Town Wide
- Solicitation number
- ITB No. 2026-013
- Issued by
- Palm Beach County, Florida
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This is an Invitation to Bid (ITB) issued by the Town of Palm Beach, Florida for beehive installation, maintenance, and honey packaging services at the Par 3 Golf Course located at 2345 S. Ocean Blvd, Palm Beach, FL 33480. The scope of services includes hive installation (the Town currently owns 4 hives), monthly maintenance per hive covering swarm prevention, honey pulling, and colony health management without chemical treatments or antibiotics, honey harvesting priced per pound, and honey packaging in 6-ounce and 2-ounce glass jars with gold lids and custom labels. Additional optional services include installation of up to ten additional frame hives with bees, bee removal services on Town properties, queen bee supply, and mite treatments. A non-mandatory pre-bid meeting will be held virtually via Microsoft Teams with attendance strongly encouraged. Bids must be submitted online through Euna Procurement (Bonfire) with pricing valid for 90 days from bid closure. The contract term is five years, and award will be made to the lowest responsive and responsible bidder, with the Town reserving the right to award on an all-or-none or line-by-line basis.
The contractor must demonstrate at least two years of managed apiary operations experience and comply with all applicable Florida apiary and environmental regulations. Critical requirements include possession of a certified food facility for jar packing for resale, kosher certification, and willingness to provide hive tours and participate in marketing activities. Pricing is structured per hive per month for maintenance, per pound for honey harvested, and per jar for packaging services. The contractor must provide monthly maintenance reports documenting observations and hive health status and maintain inventory logs for honey production and packaging. A 24-hour response time is required for urgent hive issues such as on-site swarms. No information regarding funding sources, amounts, or set-asides is specified in the provided documentation.
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Town of Palm Beach – Invitation to Bid (ITB) Beehive Installation, Maintenance, and Honey Packaging Services
Project Location: Town of Palm Beach Par 3 Golf Course, 2345 S. Ocean Blvd, Palm Beach, FL 33480.
1. Purpose
The Town seeks a qualified contractor to install and maintain beehives at the Par 3 Golf Course and to harvest and package honey, in accordance with the scope below.
2. Scope of Services
A. Hive installation if requested, the town currently owns 4 hives.
B. Monthly Hive Maintenance
· Perform monthly services for each hive: swarm prevention, honey pulling, colony health maintenance, and management without feeding, chemical treatments, or antibiotics.
Pricing to be per hive per month.
C. Honey Harvesting:
· Harvest honey; pricing to be per pound (lb.) of honey produced.
D. Packaging:
· Provide 6-ounce glass jars with gold lids and custom labels, pricing per jar.
· Provide 2-ounce glass jars with gold lids and custom labels, pricing per jar.
· Please provide pricing for all size jars containers you pack
E. Additional/Optional Items (Not included in total; future purchase as needed):
· Additional queen bees (as needed).
· Mite treatments (per treatment).
· Optional: Install additional ten-frame hives with bees and required components.
· Optional: Bee removal on Town properties (price per removal).
F. Must have a certified food facility for packing jars for resell
G. Must be kosher certified
H. Willing to give tours of hives and participate in marketing.
3. Minimum Requirements & Standards
· Contractor shall comply with all applicable Florida apiary and environmental regulations and local ordinances.
· Work must be performed by experienced beekeepers; demonstrate at least two (2) years of managed apiary operations of similar scope.
· Use practices consistent with chemical-free, antibiotic-free hive management as specified above.
4. Deliverables & Service Levels
· Monthly Maintenance Reports: Brief report per visit (date, observations, actions, hive health status, honey frames pulled).
· Honey Production & Packaging: Provide inventory logs showing pounds harvested and number of jars packaged by size and label proof.
· Response Time: Address urgent hive issues (e.g., swarms on site) within 24 hours.
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