MAINTENANCE SERVICES FOR CITY FESTIVALS
Preproposal Meeting - Tuesday, March 31, 2009 at the Department of Procurement Services, Bid and Bond Room at 1: 00 p.m., City Hall, 121 N. La Salle Street, Room 301, Chicago, Illinois
The City of Chicago acting through its Mayors Office of Special Events (MOSE) requires an experienced firm
("Contractor") to keep the grounds and other constructed facilities (e.g. Petrillo Music Shell backstage and main-stage areas and its restrooms; City office trailers and City-use area booths; VIP-tents; ), clean during various MOSE public events ("Events"). Such maintenance of Festival Grounds must be performed by skilled, trained, and qualified workers, who are provided by the Contractor with all necessary equipment (e.g. pressure washers, and communications equipment), supplies (toilet tissue, hand soap, and paper towels, plastic garbage liners, motorized and flatbed carts), provide other services (e.g. garbage truck and driver waste hauling and disposal services, the emptying of Cascade Super Carts by means of the garbage trucks hydraulic-lifter), and management coordination and support in order to keep the Festival Grounds clean. The various public Events are attended not only by the general public, but also by private entrepreneurs (invited or hired by MOSE to attend the Events), for example: music entertainers, chauffeurs, sound equipment engineers, restaurateurs, suppliers of scaffolding, sign makers, market vendors, lighting engineers, portable chemical toilet service providers, etc., and their equipment, tools of trade, vehicles, and support personnel. The Contractor must provide preparatory work before an Event and keep the Festival Grounds clean during and after the Events, all in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Specification.
