This is a service / maintenance or supply contract in Aurora, Illinois. Contact the soliciting agency for additional information.

The City of Aurora invites you to bid on an anticipated landscape maintenance agreement with a contractor for locations specified center islands/medians, garden beds and city -owned parks. The City reserves the right to award the bid individually or cumulatively. The City of Aurora has a local preference ordinance that would apply to this contract. Questions will be answered via addendum and posted to the City's website at website by 5:00 pm, Thursday, March 23, 2023. NO questions will be accepted or answered verbally. No questions will be accepted or answered after March 21, 2023 8:00 am cut-off date/time. It is the responsibility of the interested bidder to check our website and assure they have received addendum, if any issued, and acknowledge such receipt where indicated. Bidder shall perform all Services set forth in this Agreement, and any other agreed documents incorporated herein, with the degree, skill, care and diligence customarily required of a professional performing services of comparable scope, purpose and magnitude and in conformance with the applicable professional standards. Bidder shall, at all times, use its best efforts to assure timely and satisfactory rendering and completion of the Services. Bidder shall ensure that Bidder and all of its employees or subcontractors performing Services under this Agreement shall be: (i) qualified and competent in the applicable discipline or industry; (ii) appropriate licensed as required by law; (iii) strictly comply with all City of Aurora, State of Illinois, and applicable federal laws or regulations; (iv) strictly conform to the terms of this Agreement. Bidder shall, at all times until the completion of the Services, remain solely responsible for the professional and technical accuracy of all Services and deliverables furnished, whether such services are rendered by the Bidder or others on its behalf, including, without limitation, its subcontractors. No review, approval, acceptance, nor payment for any and all of the Services by the City shall relieve the Bidder from the responsibilities set forth herein. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Bidder shall not be responsible for the performance of construction contracts, work or products, or any deficiencies or effects resulting therefrom, of any contractor, subcontractor, manufacturer, supplier, fabricator, or consultant retained by the City or any other third-party, including any person working on their behalf. Nothing herein shall be construed as giving the Bidder the responsibility for or the authority to control, direct, or supervise construction, construction means, methods, techniques, sequences, procedures, and safety measures and programs except those which directly relate solely to Bidder's performance of Services as set forth in this Agreement.