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Recommendation to adopt Specifications No. PA-02105 and award contracts to Midori Gardens and Azteca for providing landscape maintenance services at various sites in an estimated annual amount of $789,588 for the period commencing August 1, 2005 for one year, with the option of renewing for three additional one-year periods. (Citywide)
DISCUSSION
On November 4, 2003, the City Council adopted specifications and authorized the City
Manager to advertise for bids to provide landscape maintenance services at various
designated sites, including parks and street medians citywide. An extensive employee
service delivery review process was initiated at the same time.
On July 21, 2004, thd City entered into a Contract with William Vandergeest Landscape
Care, Inc. (Vandergeest) to provide the street median landscaping citywide.
Vandergeest recently informed the City that they will not be renewing their contract at
the conclusion of the initial one-year contract period on July 21, 2005.
The Department of Parks, Recreation and Marine assumed responsibility for street
median landscape maintenance in October 2004 Since that time, we have learned a
great deal regarding the scope of work and required service levels. The new contract
will provide us the opportunity to add street medians that were inadvertently omitted
from the original specifications and those that were recently assigned to the City as part
of development agreements. The contract specifications were also adjusted to better
reflect the maintenance needs of the various landscape elements (e.g., turf, shrubs,
hardscape).
The bid specifications include a requirement that Proposition "L" contractors provide
health care benefits, pay $1.25 per hour in lieu of such benefits or pay prevailing wages
(which already include a component for health benefits) to their full-time and part-time
employees working under contract with the City. In addition, the specifications require
the contractors to provide supplement...
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