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Bid Title

25001 Woody and Herbaceous Invasive Species Management

Issuing Agency

Lake County Forest Preserves

Location

Illinois

Published Date

Jan 17, 2025

Closing Date

Feb 7, 2025

Government Level

State & Local

Status

Closed

Ref. #

25001

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Project Number:	25001
Title:	25001 Woody and Herbaceous Invasive Species Management
Description:	The Lake County Forest Preserve District (District) seeks multiple contractors who meet the requirements within this Bid Package including Attachment B, Specifications, to provide both woody and herbaceous invasive plant management across Lake County forest preserve sites during the appropriate season for the essential Work from years 2025 - 2028. The primary goal of this woody and herbaceous invasive plant management work is to maintain habitat quality or to follow up previous restoration activities such as prior invasive plant control clearing, seeding or forestry mowing. Woody Invasive species plant management will occur primarily during the dormant season and will consist of mechanical or other means including by hand, followed by herbicide application, and foliar herbicide application after mechanical removal of woody invasive plants as outlined in Attachment B, Specifications, Section 2, DORMANT SEASON WOODY INVASIVE SPECIES MANAGEMENT. Herbaceous invasive plant control will occur during the growing season and generally will include prior-approved application of the appropriate herbicide by backpack, or by boom-mounted sprayer, as outlined in Attachment B, Specifications, Section 3, GROWING SEASON HERBACEOUS INVASIVE SPECIES MANAGEMENT. The District may enter into Contracts with one or more qualified Bidders who meet the specifications as described in Attachment B, Specifications to complete multiple winter woody invasive species management projects and multiple herbaceous special control projects across multiple preserves. Each selected Bidder will enter into a Contract that provides for Work to be performed as specified in “Work Orders” to be issued by the District on an as-needed basis, as further described in Attachment A, 6: Work Orders, . The contract time for the Work will run seasonally from March 15, 2025 through November 30, 2028.  The number and scope of the projects in any given year will be determined by the annual budget approved by the District’s Board of Commissioners in October of that year. The District anticipates that it will utilize one or more contractors to undertake, in total, approximately 1100-1500 hours of dormant season woody invasive control projects, 25-75 acres of foliar spray application and 4500-5200 hours of herbaceous invasive plant control projects annually, distributed among multiple project areas across the entire District.  The project work areas will be distributed across each of 4 quadrants (Northeast, Northwest, Southeast and Southwest - See Attachment C, Map of Work Order Project Areas), and some preserves in each quadrant will likely have more than one invasive plant control project (woody and/or herbaceous) and some preserves will not have any invasive plant control projects.  Additional project areas may become available in any given fiscal year via grant or bond funded projects.  Contractors may bid on one, some or all invasive plant control project types across any or all of the project work areas. All contractors will be required to furnish the necessary personnel, equipment, herbicides, surfactants, spray pattern indicators, and water conditioning agents needed to complete Work in accordance with Work Orders that are issued to and accepted by the contractor.
Contact:	Lisa Roberts
Phone:	847-968-3210
Email:	lroberts@LCFPD.org
Advertised Date:	1/17/2025
Due Date:	02/07/2025 11:00 AM, CST
Due Description:	Please follow the steps in the documents to upload your electronic submission. Late bids will not be accepted.
Presubmittal Meeting:	01/29/2025 11:00 AM, CST
Presubmittal Meeting Details:	A non-mandatory VIRTUAL pre-bid conference will be held for the project on January 29, 2025 at 11:00 a.m. local time. If any prospective bidder intends to join the Pre-Bid Conference, you may do so via Zoom through your computer, smartphone, or telephone using the information provided in the Bid Document.
Questions Due Date/Time:	01/31/2025 11:00 AM, CST
Questions Details:	If any prospective Vendor is in doubt as to the true meaning of any part of the Package, such prospective Vendor shall submit to Owner an email, not later than the date and time listed above, directed to Owner's Purchasing Division, purchasingdept@LCFPD.org, for an interpretation thereof.
Notes:	7.         Bid Security, Bonds, and Insurance A.         Bid Security.  Each Bidder’s Proposal shall be accompanied by a security deposit of at least 10% of the Bidder’s Price Proposal in the form of (1) a cashier’s check or certified check drawn on a solvent bank insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and payable without condition to Owner; or (2) a Bid Bond in the form included in the Bid Package, or a form otherwise approved by Owner, from a surety company licensed to do business in the State of Illinois with a general rating of A and a financial size category of Class III or better in Best’s Insurance Guide.  If the required bid security/bond is not submitted with your bid proposal, your bid proposal will be rejected. B.         Performance and Payment Bonds.  The successful Bidder will be required to furnish a Performance Bond and a Labor and Material Payment Bond upon award of the Contract, each in the penal sum of the full amount of the Contract Price, on forms provided in the Bid Package from such a surety company meeting the requirements set forth above.  Each Bidder’s Proposal shall be accompanied by a letter from such a surety company stating that it will execute Bonds on forms provided in the Bid Package upon award of the Contract to Bidder.  If the required letter from your surety company is not submitted with your bid proposal, your bid proposal may be rejected. C          Insurance.  The successful Bidder will be required to furnish certificates and policies of insurance as required by Section 4.2 of the Contract upon award of the Contract.  Each Bidder’s Proposal shall be accompanied by a letter from Bidder’s insurance carrier or its agent certifying that said insurer has read the requirements set forth in the Contract and will issue the required certificates and policies of insurance upon award of the Contract to Bidder.  If the required letter from your insurance carrier/agent is not submitted with your bid proposal, your bid proposal may be rejected.

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Project Number:	25001
Title:	25001 Woody and Herbaceous Invasive Species Management

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Project Number:	25001
Title:	25001 Woody and Herbaceous Invasive Species Management

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Alluvium	108 Howe Tr	Barrington	IL	60010	Chris Spiewak Tel: 847-989-4894
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ENCAP, Inc.	2585 Wagner Court	DeKalb	IL	60115	Brett Suhayda Tel: 815-748-4500
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Integrated Lakes Management	110 Le Baron St	Waukegan	IL	60085	Debbie Budyak Tel: 847-244-6662
Lake County Forest Preserves	1899 W. Winchester Rd	Libertyville	IL	60048	Lisa Roberts Tel: 847-968-3210
McGinty Bros., Inc.	3744 East Cuba Road	Long Grove	IL	60047	Taylor Abrahamson Tel: 847-526-9322 Fax: 847-526-7240
Native Restoration Services, Inc.	403 Rockland Road Suite 2	Lake Bluff	IL	60044	Ryan Bovyn Tel: 847-450-8290 Fax: 847-739-0964
Onvia Inc	509 Olive Way Suite 400	Seattle	WA	98101	Source Management Tel: 206-373-9000 Fax: 888-263-7801
Pizzo & Associates	10729 Pine Rd	Leland	IL	60531	Nick Pizzo Tel: 815-355-0289
Summitt Forests, Inc.	2305 Ashland St Ste C PMB 432	Ashland	OR	97520	Scott Nelson Tel: 541-535-8920
Tallgrass Restoration	2221 Hammond Dr	Schaumburg	IL	60173	Doug DeWitt Tel: 847-925-9830 Fax: 847-925-9830
WILDLIFE AND WETLANDS SOLUTIONS, LLC	5211 US-131 SW	SOUTH BOARDMAN	MI	49680	Mikayla Leishman Tel: 231-570-4215

Project Number	25001
Date:	2/7/2025 11:00:00 AM
Title:	25001 Woody and Herbaceous Invasive Species Management
Bid Deposit:	None
Addendum:	N/A
Purchasing Contact:	Lisa Roberts

Commodity Codes

• NAICS 115310Support Activities for Forestry
• NAICS 541620Environmental Consulting Services

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