SW24-01 Street Sweeping

The purpose of this Request for Proposal (RFP) is to select qualified contractors for On-Call Street-Sweeping services for the City of Duluth. Individual ¿projects¿ will be based on the submitted Unit Prices per the vendor selected. The term of contract shall be for a one (1) year period with two optional one (1) year renewals. he ¿projects¿ vary in magnitude and scope. Typical projects may include but are not limited to the following: 1) sweeping of overall street network, and 2) sweeping of isolated areas prior to and/or after special events. The City may also include as part of the street sweeping on-call services, the following Additive Bid Items (ABI): stormwater structure cleaning/vacuuming (ABI#1), cleaning/vacuuming accumulated debris within roadside ditches (ABI#2), and manually removing vegetation, sediment and debris from curbs, medians and refuge islands (ABI#3). The structure cleaning, ditch cleaning/vacuuming, and roadway vegetation/debris removal will be listed as optional additive bid items on the Unit Price List. If contractor cannot provide these services, the costs associated with any of the optional services/ABI may be omitted on the Unit Price Schedule submitted with proposal package.