16-Beehives SOW.pdf
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- Bee Hives - Town Wide
- Solicitation number
- ITB No. 2026-015
- Issued by
- Palm Beach County, Florida
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This Scope of Work document and associated Invitation to Bid are issued by the Town of Palm Beach, Florida, for beehive installation, maintenance, and honey packaging services at the Town's Par 3 Golf Course located at 2345 S. Ocean Blvd, Palm Beach, FL 33480. The Town currently owns four hives and seeks a qualified contractor to perform monthly maintenance services per hive (including swarm prevention, honey pulling, and colony health maintenance), harvest honey on a per-pound basis, and provide packaging services using 6-ounce and 2-ounce glass jars with gold lids and custom labels priced per jar. Optional services include installation of up to ten additional frame hives with bees and components, queen bee procurement, mite treatments, and bee removal services on Town properties. A non-mandatory pre-bid meeting will be held virtually via Microsoft Teams, with the specific date and time provided in the Events section. Bids must be submitted online through Euna Procurement (Bonfire) by the deadline specified in the solicitation. Award will be made to the lowest responsive and responsible bidder meeting all requirements, with the Town reserving the right to award on an all-or-none or line-by-line basis. The contract term is five years.
Contractors must be experienced beekeepers with a minimum of two years of managed apiary operations experience, hold certification as a food facility for jar packing and resale, maintain kosher certification, and comply with all applicable Florida apiary and environmental regulations. All hive management must be chemical-free and antibiotic-free. Pricing shall be submitted as per-hive per-month rates for maintenance, per-pound rates for honey harvesting, and per-jar rates for packaging services in specified sizes, with pricing required for all jar sizes the contractor offers. Contractors must provide monthly maintenance reports documenting date, observations, actions taken, and hive health status; maintain inventory logs of pounds harvested and jars packaged by size; and respond to urgent hive issues within 24 hours. Quoted prices must remain valid for 90 days from the bid closure date.
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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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