Landscape Maintenance -Statewide

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This state and local contracting opportunity is for statewide landscape maintenance services issued by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The contract will require the successful bidder to provide a range of landscape maintenance improvements, including the removal and control of invasive vegetation, tree removal or pruning, planting of new vegetation, weeding, mulching, and cleaning of planting sites. The estimated project cost is $1,900,000 with a contract duration of 730 calendar days. Sealed bids will be accepted until November 6, 2019, and a pre-bid conference will be held on October 22, 2019. The evaluation criteria includes the bidder's qualifications, proposed staffing, equipment, and ability to meet the Commonwealth's sustainability and environmentally preferable practices requirements.

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This contract opportunity has a combined participation goal of 0.0% for minority-owned and women-owned business enterprises, as well as a 0.0% participation benchmark for veteran-owned business enterprises. Each bid must include a 5% bid deposit, and the contract is subject to minimum wage rate requirements. The Commonwealth reserves the right to waive any informalities or reject any and all bids if it is in the public interest to do so. Details on any incumbent contractors or current budget ranges for this work were not provided in the information given.