Title
Street Right-of-Way Landscape Maintenance Contract RFP-24-0432 - Request for Award (Ordinance S-52199) - Citywide
Description
Request to authorize the City Manager, or his designee, to enter into contracts with BrightView Landscape Services, Inc.; Caretaker Inc. dba Caretaker Landscape and Tree Management; DLC Resources, Inc.; Mariposa Landscape Arizona, Inc.; and URW, LLC dba United Right of Way to provide street right-of-way landscape maintenance for the Street Transportation Department. Further request to authorize the City Controller to disburse all funds related to this item. The total cost of the contracts will not exceed $35,000,000.
Summary
These contracts will provide landscape contractors for large-scale, street right-of-way (ROW) landscape maintenance services for the Street Transportation Department. The contractors will be performing routine, non-routine and emergency landscape maintenance services for approximately 4,000 acres of City of Phoenix and Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) street ROW including the following: frontages, overpasses, roadways, medians, pedestrian walkways, access roads, embankments, multi-use pathways, retention basins, washes, dams and levees.
Procurement Information
A Request for Proposal procurement was processed in accordance with City of Phoenix Administrative Regulation 3.10.
Five vendors submitted proposals deemed responsive and responsible. An evaluation committee of City staff evaluated those offers based on the following criteria with a maximum possible point total of 1,000:
- Qualifications and Experience (0-350 points)
- Method of Approach (0-250 points)
- Capacity (0-200 points)
- Price (0-200 points)
After reaching consensus, the evaluation committee recommends award to the following vendors:
- BrightView Landscape Services, Inc., 785.00 points
- Caretaker Inc., dba Caretaker Landscape and Tree Management, 824.06 points
- DLC Resources, Inc., 861.83 points
- Mariposa Landscape Arizona, Inc., 815.37 points
- URW, LLC dba United Right of Way, 747.81 points
Contract Term
The contracts will begin on or about October 1, 2025, for a five-year term with no options to extend.
Financial Impact
The aggregate cost of the contracts will not exceed $35,000,000. Funding is available in the Street Transportation Department's budget.
Department
Responsible Department
This item is submitted by Assistant City Manager Inger Erickson and the Street Transportation Department.