Forklift and Manlift Preventive Maintenance & Repair Services

The Long Beach Public Utilities Department is requesting quotations for forklift and manlift preventive maintenance and as-needed repair services, with bids due September 16, 2025 at 11:00 a.m. via the Long Beach Buys online portal. A Long Beach–based business meeting local preference criteria may receive a ten percent bid price reduction for award determination purposes, up to a maximum of fifty thousand dollars.

The contractor must service 13 pieces of equipment — sit-down forklifts, stand-up forklifts, boom lifts, vertical mast lifts, scissor lifts, and articulating boom lifts — at LBPUD Operations Service Center, Treatment Plant, and Gas Facility locations. Semi-annual preventive maintenance is scheduled for June and December, with repairs requested on an as-needed basis. Emergency repairs must be completed within 24 hours of request (contractor response within four hours); semi-annual preventive maintenance must be completed within one business day. The contractor must provide written estimates at no additional cost and obtain LBPUD approval before commencing work. All work must adhere to OSHA standards and be conducted in "as is" condition; the contractor assumes all responsibility for inspection, testing, and repair.

The bidder must be licensed and certified by the State of California for forklift and manlift maintenance and repairs and located within a 70-mile radius of LBPUD. Bidders must provide unit pricing for semi-annual preventive maintenance per unit, hourly labor rates for standard service/repair calls, and hourly emergency service/repair call rates. Unit prices and percentage discounts must remain firm for the one-year contract term; price increases and discount reductions are not acceptable and may result in contract cancellation. The contract term is one year with potential extension for two additional one-year periods by mutual agreement. LBPUD does not guarantee minimum usage or that all services will be ordered. The contractor must maintain comprehensive general liability insurance of one million dollars combined single limit per occurrence.