Addendum_1_IFB2025-002_Mowing_and_Landscaping_Services.pdf

May 5, 2025

Addendum No. 1

Project: Mowing and Landscape Services Bid No: IFB2025-002

TO ALL PROPOSERS:

The following items are clarifications, corrections, additions, deletions and / or revisions, which shall take precedence over the original documents.

Question 1: Will a CPI be allowed for extended years for this contract?

Answer: Yes, however, all price increases will need to be approved prior to the extension of the contract.

Question 2: Are trees and palms included in this bid?

Answer: No, not included in this contract.

Question 3: Do the vendors need to replace the plants that are removed?

Answer: See Section in Bid 3.6.6 – also placed below. The city will require contractor to obtain quotes for the plant replacement and get prior authorization.

3.6.6 ORNAMENTAL PLANT REPLACEMENT: Contractor shall ensure that ornamental plants remain healthy and free of weeds year-round. Contractor shall remove and dispose of off site any dead or declining ornamental plant upon discovery.

Contractor shall notify the City of the removal of any ornamental plant within seven (7) days of discovery and provide an estimate of the cost to replace such plant material with the same genius or species of plant material that is at least fifty (50) percent of the size of the replaced plant material. If City agrees to the estimate, Contractor shall replace the ornamental plant within seven (7) days of the City agreeing to the estimate. Contractor, at the Contractor’s own expense, shall replace any plant materials damaged by Contractor.

a. Question 4: Are contractors required to provide proof of MOT?

Answer: No, but expectation to follow the safety rules are required.

Question 5: Are special licenses needed?

Answer: No

Question 6: Does overgrowth of ditches need to be mowed?

Answer: Just mow up to the water’s edge, do not mow area that are wet.

Question 7: Do playgrounds need to be mowed or mulched?

Answer: No, mulching is done by the City of Kissimmee.

Question 8: Does the City of Kissimmee provide insurance and umbrella insurance?

Answer: No, it is the contractor’s responsibility to provide that coverage as stated in bid below.

a. The vendor will have to provide it for their own employees.

b. 2.12 LIABILITY: The successful bidder shall act as an independent contractor and not as an employee of the City of Kissimmee. The vendor will be required to indemnify, defend, hold and save harmless City of Kissimmee, its officers, agents, and employees, from damage arising from the vendor’s performance of, or failure to perform, any task or duty required to be performed.

c. 2.9 INSURANCE PROVISIONS: Contractor shall be responsible for all damages to person or property that occur on the job site or adjacent thereto as a result of Contractor’s fault or negligence in 7 connection with this Agreement. Contractor shall, prior to commencing work, furnish evidence to the City of Kissimmee of required insurance policies naming City of Kissimmee as additional insured, underwritten by a firm rated A-X or better by A.M. Best and qualified to do business in the State of Florida. During the term of the Agreement and any renewals, Contractor at their sole cost and expenses shall maintain insurance coverage as follows: a. Workers Compensation: Contractor will provide Worker’s Compensation coverage for all employees at the site location and, in case any work is subcontracted, will require the subcontractor to provide Workers’ Compensation for all its employees. The limits will not be less than the statutory amounts for Worker’s Compensation and $300,000.00 for Employers’ Liability. b. Comprehensive General Liability: Contractor will provide coverage for all operations including, but not limited to Contractual, Products, and Completed Operations with limits of not less than $1,000,000.00. c. Comprehensive Automobile Liability: Contractor will provide coverage for all owned and non-owed vehicles for limits of not less than $1,000,000.00. d. Umbrella Insurance: Contractor will provide umbrella coverage in excess to the coverage in paragraphs B), and C) of not less than $1,000,000.00.

Question 9: What will be the budget for this project?

Answer: $620,000 per year

Question 10: Does this project require any specialty licenses?

Answer: No

Question 11: Why is this bid being performed?

Answer: The current contract will expire.

Question 12: What is the expected award date?

Answer: As soon as possible, with the expectation of July 1, 2025, start date.

Question 13: Will Lancaster Ranch or the Cemetery?

Answer: Soon but not within this bid.

Question 14: On the maps provided what are the sections to be mowed? Please provide a clearer explanation.

Answer: The light green areas are part of the agreement and should be mowed but the dark green areas on the GIS maps are not on agreement and should not be mowed.

Question 15: Both attachments C-1 and C-2 have areas marked in PINK. What is the significance of the areas marked in PINK? Is there work to be done in those areas?

Answer: The areas highlighted in pink in attachment C-1 are included. These areas have been marked for clarification. The areas highlighted in pink in attachment C-2 are not included.

Question 16: May we see the previous winning bid/tabulations?

Answer: We have never combined these projects together before. There are no documents.

Question 17: Is there a minimum requirement with regard to the size of the team assigned to complete the work?

Answer: During the summer months, three to four recommended. No minimum requirement set; however, teams must be capable of completing cycles as required per schedule.

Meeting remark from Project Manager:

The parks’ main expectation is to clean out the blades before mowing onto the next mowing area.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF ADDENDA:

1. The proposer shall acknowledge receipt of this addendum by completing the applicable section in the RFQ. The Proposer shall submit said Form with the proposal.

2. All other terms and conditions of the RFQ remain unchanged.

Brandon Durango Procurement Manager

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