File #: 25-0308    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Bid Recommendation Status: Approved
File created: 8/11/2025 In control: Finance Committee
On agenda: 9/9/2025 Final action:
Title: PROPOSED BID RECOMMENDATION Department: Department of Planning and Development Request: Authorization for the Forest Preserves of Cook County (the "Forest Preserves") to enter into a construction contract with Great Lakes Landscape Company, primary place of business Bartlett, Illinois, for construction of a new trail connecting Beaubien Woods Boat Launch to Altgeld Gardens in Chicago, Illinois. Reason: Contract #74000016702 issued under Solicitation #25-80-012896 for Project #25-80-02, Beaubien Woods - Altgeld Gardens Trail Connection. The work includes, but is not limited to, construction of a new aggregate-surface trail with a box culvert. Work also includes building a temporary hauling road with natural prairie land restoration. The Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) will reimburse up to $315,000.00 of the trail cost as mitigation for impacts from a future 130th Red Line Extension station pursuant to an Intergovernmental Agreement with the CTA (Board Item No. 23-0520). Bid Open...
Indexes: ADAM BIANCHI, General Superintendent
Attachments: 1. MWBE Recommendation Ltr - Great Lakes - Beaubien 1
Related files: 23-0520

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PROPOSED BID RECOMMENDATION

 

Department:  Department of Planning and Development

 

Request: Authorization for the Forest Preserves of Cook County (the “Forest Preserves”) to enter into a construction contract with Great Lakes Landscape Company, primary place of business Bartlett, Illinois, for construction of a new trail connecting Beaubien Woods Boat Launch to Altgeld Gardens in Chicago, Illinois. 

 

Reason: Contract #74000016702 issued under Solicitation #25-80-012896 for Project #25-80-02, Beaubien Woods – Altgeld Gardens Trail Connection. The work includes, but is not limited to, construction of a new aggregate-surface trail with a box culvert. Work also includes building a temporary hauling road with natural prairie land restoration. The Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) will reimburse up to $315,000.00 of the trail cost as mitigation for impacts from a future 130th Red Line Extension station pursuant to an Intergovernmental Agreement with the CTA (Board Item No. 23-0520).

 

Bid Opening Date:  8/12/2025 

 

Bid Results:

1.  Great Lakes Landscape Company                                           $1,074,397.00

2.  Meru Corporation                                                                                                    $1,239,177.00

3.  Semper Fi Landscaping, Inc.                                                                       $1,330,229.95

4.  MYS, Inc.                                                                                                                                $1,533,909.86

5.  Pan-Oceanic Engineering Co., Inc.                                          $1,813,869.69 

 

Estimated Fiscal Impact: $1,074,397.00

 

Contract Period: Four hundred forty-seven (447) calendar days from the issuance of the Notice to Proceed.

 

Account Name/Number: Land Improvements 51009.560019, 51010.560019, 51033.560019, 51034.560019 and 51036.560019; and future Construction and Development accounts

 

District: 4 

 

Concurrence(s): The Chief Financial Officer and Chief Attorney have approved this item.

 

The vendor has met the Minority- and Women-Owned Business Enterprise Ordinance via direct participation.