City of Scranton Tree and Brush Grinding Services
Open State & local contract opportunity Posted
- Solicitation number
- 2026-ITB-146
- State
- Pennsylvania
- Responses due
Opportunity facts
- Jurisdiction
- NIGP codes
- UNSPSC codes
- Point of contact
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- Caleb Bakalyar cbakalyar@scrantonpa.gov (570) 348-4118
Opportunity details come from procurement.opengov.com. Updated .
About this opportunity
The City of Scranton Department of Business Administration is soliciting separate sealed bids for tree and brush grinding services under Invitation to Bid (ITB) through its e-Procurement Portal, with bids due November 24, 2026 at 11:00 a.m. Bidders must register on the portal and click "Follow" on this ITB to receive automatic addenda notifications and to draft and submit a response. Bids will be opened at that time in City Council Chambers on the 2nd Floor of City Hall, with a video of the opening posted afterward to the City's YouTube channel. The City Controller receives bids online.
The ITB specifications, which govern scope, performance standards, insurance requirements, and contractual terms, are available on the portal at secure.procurenow.com/portal/scrantonpa. Bidders must also complete and upload the Federal Certification Regarding Lobbying form with their submission, and failure to provide it may result in bid rejection or contract termination. All technical, scope, and project questions, along with requests for clarifications, changes, exceptions, and deviations to the ITB terms, must be submitted through the portal's "Q & A" function before the bid deadline.
The opportunity is posted under Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, and the ITB was posted November 12, 2026.
Opportunity text
CITY OF SCRANTON
INVITATION TO BID
City of Scranton Tree and Brush Grinding Services
The City of Scranton Department of Business Administration is seeking separate sealed bids for City of Scranton Tree and Brush Grinding Services. Bids will be received online by the City Controller via the City's e-Procurement Portal until 11:00 am, Tuesday, November 24, 2026, at which time such bids will be opened in City Council Chambers on the 2nd Floor of City Hall. A video of the bid opening will be available for public viewing at www.youtube.com/user/electriccitytv570 after the live opening.
Bids shall be made upon the specifications included in the official Invitation to Bid (ITB) which may be obtained by visiting the City of Scranton's e-Procurement Portal, https://secure.procurenow.com/portal/scrantonpa. If you intend to submit a bid, you must register on the City's e-Procurement Portal. Once registered, you may view and click "Follow" to be a prospective bidder for this ITB. You will then appear on the followers list. If you do not follow this project you will not receive automatic addenda notifications, nor will you be able to draft a response in the City's e-Procurement Portal, and therefore you will be unable to participate in or be considered for this ITB.
All bid documents and supplementary documents must be uploaded and submitted using the City's e-Procurement Portal prior to 11:00 am on Tuesday, November 24, 2026, as instructed in this ITB. Once file(s) have been uploaded and the submission status shows as "Submitted," the submission is complete. At that point, bidder's representative who is registered with the City will receive an email confirmation from the City's e-Procurement Portal.
All communications regarding technical, scope, and/or project related questions and requests for clarifications, changes, exceptions, and deviations to the terms and conditions set forth in this ITB shall be submitted via "Q & A" through the City's e-Procurement Portal, before the deadline of 11:59 pm on Thursday, November 19, 2026 and according to these specifications herein.
If you encounter any technical difficulties utilizing the City's e-Procurement Portal, you may contact OpenGov, the Software Administrator, using the real-time chat function on the website (located in lower right-hand corner of the screen), or via email at support@procurenow.com. It is still your responsibility to ensure that your bid is submitted before the deadline.
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