PSW Landscaping Hilo, Hawaii

The Department of Agriculture Forest Service seeks bi-weekly landscape maintenance services at the Institute of Pacific Island Forestry Laboratory in Hilo, Hawaii, with proposals due September 24, 2026 at 10:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time. The procurement is a 100% small business set-aside. Amendment 1, posted September 18, 2026, extended the proposal due date and established a mandatory site visit on September 21, 2026 at 1:00 PM Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time.

Place of performance is the Institute of Pacific Island Forestry, 60 Nowelo Street, Hilo, HI 96720, with contract administration by USDA Forest Service CSA Northwest 1 in Portland, Oregon. The NAICS code is 561730 (Landscaping Services); PSC is S208 (Housekeeping–Landscaping/Groundskeeping).

Services include mowing, weed trimming, bush pruning, mulching, weeding, sidewalk and parking area cleanup using blowers, and application of pre-approved biobased herbicides with minimum 25% biobased content. Personnel performing mowing and trimming must have minimum one-year landscape maintenance experience. Contractors must provide bi-weekly status reports by 3:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time each Friday. Water and electricity are provided on-site.

The contract base year runs October 1, 2026 through September 30, 2027, with four option years through September 30, 2031. Twenty-six estimated service events per contract year are on a firm fixed-price basis. Service Contract Act wage determination 2015-5691 applies; grounds maintenance laborers earn $22.38 per hour plus $2.42 per hour in fringe benefits. Evaluation criteria—past performance, quality control plan, performance schedule with equipment availability, and price—are considered essentially equal in importance to combined technical factors, though price may control award if technical evaluations are substantially equal. Local Hawaii contractors receive preference when proposals are similar in technical capability and price.