SLED Opportunity · FLORIDA · CITY OF TAMPA
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The City of Tampa seeks a single source vendor authorized to provide and support the Tree Plotter SaaS software suite for urban forestry management, including tree planting location identification, work order management, and storm damage assessment.
The City of Tampa Forestry uses the Tree Plotter suite of tools to identify Tree-Mendous Tree Planting locations as required by City ordinance. It also creates work orders for both internal and contracted crews, generates a work history, and archives completed work orders for reference in case Risk Management – Claims needs a history for tree failures causing damage to private property.
The City of Tampa uses to Tree Plotter to post-ERC activation to capture all the tropical storm/hurricane damage for Forestry crew routing and assisting contractors with the post storm cleanup. Tree Plotter is also used for weekly reporting on Forestry activities which is then summarized in the annual State of the Forest report.
The prospective bidder must be an authorized manufacturer's distributor or dealer who can quote the product and also provide warranty service, maintenance or repairs if and when requested for the quoted product provided to the City.
Q (sole source): Why is this a sole-source bid? Several vendors offer software offering the same functions as Plan It Geo and could host the state urban forest data.
A: There maybe other Tree Plotting software available that all have their uniqueness about them. The PlanIT Tree Plotter system is proprietary SaaS, Cloud based tree inventory management and outreach software with unique add-on modules that allows the City staff to customize the application as programmatic needs evolve. The City has used this software since 2019. If your product can support the Tree-Plotter software suite, please submit your paperwork for the City's review.
Q (Plan It Geo Software Specifications and Access): Since other vendors offer the same SaaS software for tree plotting, please provide the city's project specifications. Tree-plotting software is a common tool in urban forestry on the open market, provided by multiple vendors.
A: There is no project specifications. This is just a market research type tool to see if there are other companies that carry the Tree Plotter software that PlanIt Geo provides to the City. The software is common but each software has a uniqueness about it. You are more than welcome to submit information on your software for review.
SLED stands for State, Local, and Education. These are solicitations issued by state governments, counties, cities, school districts, utilities, and higher education institutions — as opposed to federal agencies.
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