Landscape Maintenance: Right-of-Way (ROW)

The City of South San Francisco (“City”) is soliciting proposals from qualified Firms/Contractors (“Contractor”) to provide specialized landscaping maintenance services throughout the City. The requested services contemplated under this Request for Proposals (“RFP”) consist of providing landscaping services, including but not limited to providing qualified horticultural supervision, furnishing all labor, materials, equipment and transportation required to properly maintain and enhance the City’s specified landscaped properties in an attractive condition, and providing other work as detailed in the Scope of Work. The proposals submitted in response to this RFP will be used as the basis for selecting a Contractor to complete the Scope of Work.

The City contracts out for certain specialized landscape maintenance services throughout the City. These specialized contracted services are necessary to keep up with the extensive and varied landscape maintenance responsibilities of the City in order to maintain safety and aesthetic objectives. Over the years, the City’s landscaping maintenance requirements have changed and the City is now seeking proposals for specialized landscaping services for specified locations and service levels. These specified locations include medians, streets, hook ramps, parks, green spots and facility landscapes. The City seeks innovative landscaping companies that implement current landscape techniques with a focus on sustainability, pollinator habitat care, a proactive IPM approach, SB1383 compliance, and adoption of electric maintenance equipment.