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The Church Street Marketplace is composed of four blocks: 1. City Hall Block - Church Street between Main and College Streets 2. Second Block - Church Street between College and Bank Streets 3. Mall Block - Church Street between Bank and Cherry Streets 4. Top Block - Church Street between Cherry and Pearl Streets There are 78 trees on these four blocks of the Church Street Marketplace. The selected lighting contractor will be responsible for decorating all the trees with light strands, using at a minimum a required two workers and a bucket truck. There are also four intersections with steel cables which are intermittently decorated with lights and annually decorated with garland. Every Christmas the Church Street Marketplace installs a 40-45 foot blue spruce tree on the Top Block of Church Street. The tree is donated by a local family or business. The Marketplace team retrieves the tree with the help of an additional contractor, and transport it to the Top Block of Church Street. Once the tree is secured in its base on the Top Block, the selected contractor will decorate the tree with at least 250 light strands – strands are installed vertically, spaced about 1 inch apart. The selected contract will need to use at a minimum a required two workers and a bucket truck. The Contractor will complete the following tasks and all tasks included in Contractor’s Cost Quote: 1. Bucket Truck Installations for Winter Holiday Lights. This task Includes: A) Remove lights from 78 TREES on all four blocks prior to the 2024 Winter Holiday installation. B) Stringing new lights on 78 TREES on all four blocks for the 2024 Winter Holidays and occasional maintenance as needed; C) Assisting CSM in securing Christmas tree at private residence in Greater Burlington Area, including cutting down the tree, grinding the stump, and stringing the tree with lights; D) Removing lights from Christmas tree and removing tree from Church Street by the end of the first week of January The Church Street Marketplace reserves the right to obtain clarification of any point in a bidder’s proposal or to obtain additional information necessary to properly evaluate a proposal. Failure of a bidder to respond to such a request for additional information or clarification may result in rejection of the bidder’s proposal. Bidders who submit qualifying proposals may be asked to for an interview. Questions can be submitted through email to Director Kara Alnasrawi at the e-mail below by May 22, 2023. Responses will be posted on the Church Street Marketplace