Maintenance and Cleaning of Retention Ponds, Ditches and Swales
Closed State & local contract opportunity
- Solicitation number
- 26-HO-032
- State
- Florida
- Responses due
Opportunity facts
- Jurisdiction
- NIGP codes
- UNSPSC code
- Point of contact
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- Agency Admin agencyadmin@pcsb.org
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About this opportunity
Pinellas County School District is requesting sealed electronic bids for maintenance and cleaning of retention ponds, ditches, and swales across 140 district facilities, with bids due by 3:00 p.m. on August 28, 2026, and a mandatory pre-bid conference on August 18, 2026, at 9:00 a.m. at the Walter Pownall Service Center in Largo, Florida. A preference for Florida-based businesses applies under Florida Statute 287.084.
Bidders must be located within a 75-mile radius of the Pinellas County School Administration Building and demonstrate five continuous years of business operation under the same legal entity. All bidders must provide evidence of at least three comparable projects within the past five years, obtain Level 2 background screening clearance under the Jessica Lunsford Act, and complete required affidavits regarding public entity crimes and coercion for labor.
The scope encompasses mowing and clearing vegetation, removal of undesirable vegetation in ponds and ditches, cleaning of outfall structures and drainage pipes, grading, tree removal, silt removal, and herbicide spraying by a licensed applicator. Pricing is unit-cost-based for equipment operation (Menzi or Spyder, slope mowers, bush hogs, line trimmers, dump trucks, skid steers, excavators), herbicide application, and structural repair and cleaning services across 487 total service instances spanning district facilities.
The estimated annual contract value is approximately $450,000. The contract period runs September 22, 2026, through September 21, 2027, with options for two additional one-year renewals plus up to three thirty-day unilateral extensions. Original bid prices remain firm for the first term; price escalation or de-escalation at renewal is based on CPI-U with 60 days' notice required. The District anticipates awarding to a maximum of two bidders demonstrating the lowest responsive and responsible bids.
Contractors must obtain General Liability Insurance ($1,000,000 per occurrence / $2,000,000 aggregate), Automotive Liability Insurance ($300,000 Combined Single Limit), and Workers' Compensation Insurance at statutory levels, with the School Board listed as Additional Insured on all policies. Certificates of insurance must be filed with the Risk Management Department within ten working days of award before work commences.
Opportunity text
The Pinellas County School District (District) is soliciting sealed electronic bids in response to Maintenance and Cleaning of Retention Ponds, Ditches and Swales. Bids are due before 3:00 pm on Friday, August 28, 2026. Bids may be received up to but not later than, the date and time listed above, via the District e-Procurement Portal located at https://procurement.opengov.com/portal/PCSB. The District e-Procurement Portal Clock is the official clock for the determination of all deadline dates and times. Without exception, responses will not be accepted after the submission deadline regardless of any technical difficulties such as poor internet connections. The Pinellas County School District Purchasing Department strongly recommends completing your response well ahead of the deadline. Pinellas County Schools has partnered with OpenGov Procurement which provides government agencies and their suppliers with a comprehensive and easy to use web-based eProcurement system. Registered suppliers receive automatic notification and transmittal of bid solicitations, and there is no charge to register and subscribe to receive PCS solicitation notifications. Please visit https://procurement.opengov.com/portal/pcsb to register and subscribe. Once you have downloaded bid documents from an OpenGov notification you will automatically receive an e-mail notifying you when any addenda are issued or questions posted have been answered. If you obtain our solicitation documents from any other source, we cannot guarantee that you will automatically receive subsequent notifications of addendums. To assure that you are automatically notified, you must visit the above website and download the bid document. The District will not be responsible if you fail to receive any and all addendums if you obtain the original bid document from another source. The district will give consideration to prices established by the State of Florida Department of Management Services, Division of Purchasing through its contracts and negotiated agreement price schedules. The procurement contact for this solicitation is Hope Olda and can be reached at oldah@pcsb.org. Submit Electronic Responses via the District e-Procurement Portal: https://procurement.opengov.com/portal/PCSB
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