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Landscape Bid Specifications
by Nilsson Associates, Green Industry Consultants
www.nilssonbooks.com (http://www.nilssonbooks.com/)
For:
Lawn Care Operators
Grounds Maintenance Contractors
Landscape Design - Build - Maintain Companies
Snow Plowing Contractors
Schools - College & University Campus Grounds
Facility Managers
Real Estate Management Companies
In-House Maintenance Department Supervisors
No more trying to find the right words to explain, outline and describe your grounds maintenance contracts and landscaping job bids specifications. This book contains hundreds of samples of lawn - landscape - grounds maintenance bid specifications of contract bid language that fits any bidding situation. In each work category select the exact job bid terminology and work description that best fits your particular situation in your job bid work requirement spec (or) then add to or modify from the sample language sentences and paragraphs of work specifications given. Produce professional written specifications and avoid bidding unrealistic site spec. requirements of what to include and exclude.
A good set of bid specifications covers every element of the work and then explains that work specification element in full detail. A good set of specifications also covers what is not included so that work outside the specification will not be expected from the contractor since it hasn't been provided in the contract specification or paid for by the client customer. Covers summer and winter grounds maintenance contracts, work specs & elements and snow removal specifications, contract work and includes a list of work upsell contract options to look for on any bid site to boost sales. Includes all contract samples formats and proposal forms as examples and forms that can be modified for your use. Also has a complete model specification customer bid work proposal and full bid outline package tied to a bid price package.
Includes Specifications For:
Spring cleanups of lawns and beds
Pavement sweeping of parking areas, roads, lots and grounds
Lawn mowing of finished lawns and field areas
Chemical lawn applications
Chemical treatments to shrubs, plants and trees
Installation of mulch in beds
Edging of walks and shrub beds
Fall cleanup of leaves and debris
Winter maintenance programs
Tree pruning and removal
Clearing and cleanups following storm damage
Cleaning parking lot and road drains
Cleaning of roof gutters
Landscape accent areas
Reseeding, installing sod, planting trees & shrubs
Decorating a property for Christmas Holidays
Policing grounds
Weed controls in beds and lawns
Dethatching
Installation of flowers
Fertilization of lawns, shrubs & trees
Irrigation System repair
How to order
Writing The Maintenance Specifications
by Nilsson Associates
Book # C-2, Price $34.50
To order online Click Here: (http://nilssonbooks.com/job_bidding_pricing.htm#Writing The Maintenance Speci-fications)
To order by phone Toll Free 1-866-280-2252
http://nilssonbooks.com/guarantee.gif
Business
solution
links ...
Advertising (http://nilssonbooks.com/advertising_and_sales.htm) -
Bidding Jobs (http://nilssonbooks.com/job_bidding_pricing.htm) - (http://www.asharpdesign.com/nilsson/discounts_and_deals.htm)
Business Growth (http://nilssonbooks.com/mangement.htm) -
Business Plan (http://nilssonbooks.com/mangement.htm#Business Planning Workbook) -
Commercial (http://nilssonbooks.com/advertising_and_sales.htm#Selling To Commercial Customers) -
Company Policy (http://nilssonbooks.com/mangement.htm#Writing Your Company Policy Manual) -
Contract Cost (http://nilssonbooks.com/job_bidding_pricing.htm) -
Customers (http://nilssonbooks.com/advertising_and_sales.htm#Selling To Commercial Customers) -
Employees (http://nilssonbooks.com/employee.htm) -
Estimating (http://nilssonbooks.com/job_estimating_package.htm) -
Job Cost (http://nilssonbooks.com/job_bidding_pricing.htm#Labor Time Data Handbook) -
Job Specs (http://nilssonbooks.com/job_bidding_pricing.htm#Writing The Maintenance Speci-fications) -
Labor Time Data (http://nilssonbooks.com/job_bidding_pricing.htm#Labor Time Data Handbook) -
Maintenance (http://nilssonbooks.com/operations.htm#Grounds Maintenance Manual) -
Management (http://nilssonbooks.com/mangement.htm) -
Mowing Profits (http://nilssonbooks.com/operations.htm#Maximizing Profits In Mowing) -
Pricing (http://nilssonbooks.com/job_bidding_pricing.htm#Pricing Your Services) - Sales (http://nilssonbooks.com/advertising_and_sales.htm) -
Sales Letters (http://nilssonbooks.com/advertising_and_sales.htm#How To Write Effective Sales Letters) -
Sales Skills (http://nilssonbooks.com/advertising_and_sales.htm) -
Snow Removal (http://nilssonbooks.com/operations.htm#The Snow Removal Business) -
Subcontracting (http://nilssonbooks.com/employee.htm#Subcontracting the Work) -
Training Video (http://nilssonbooks.com/video_tapes.htm) -
Website Services (http://nilssonbooks.com/other_services.htm#Web Design) -
Winter Income (http://nilssonbooks.com/operations.htm)
Other
resources:
Sales Boosters (http://nilssonbooks.com/sales_booster_package.htm)
Job Estimating Package (http://nilssonbooks.com/job_estimating_package.htm)
FREE Job Pricing Guidelines (http://nilssonbooks.com/free_job_guidelines.htm)
New Business Startup Package (http://nilssonbooks.com/just_getting_started.htm)
Complete Operations Management System (http://nilssonbooks.com/coms_package.htm)
When it comes to pricing lawn and landscape jobs nobody has more landscape industry pricing information than Nilsson Associates, Green Industry Consultants. Nilsson's Job Price Guides covers lawn care bids, job bidding & estimating for tree care, irrigation installation & service, pavement sweeping & maintenance, snow plowing operations, landscaping and hardscaping job bids for both commercial & residential customers as well as real estate management, parks & recreation departments, municipalities, college and univeristy grounds. The prices cover; estimates & bids for grounds services, landscaping pricing estimates , estimating & bid the price seasonal work, year around commercial estimate contracts, price per square foot, best grounds maintenance & landscaping job to bid & pricing, price of lawn care, lawn mowing price, aeration pricing, lawns, commercial landscape job bid estimates, most all outdoor maintenance estimating & pricing, mulching prices, pricing chemicals, weeding & aerating pricing, fertilizer prices, prices for organic fertilizer, pricing weeds in beds, pricing pruning & trimming trees & shrubs, pricing commercial & residential snow plowing, hardscape pricing, pricing hydroseeding, irrigation service estimates for commercial & residential, pricing seeding lawns, pricing lawn sod, prices for slit seeding lawns, pricing edging lawn beds, spring cleanup prices, pricing fall cleanups, hourly price of pressure washing walks & patios, pricing trees, stump grinding prices, price for gutter cleaning, lawn dethatching price, price for shoveling snow, pricing salting, price for sanding.
For more information about Pricing Click Here for FREE Job Pricing Guidelines (http://nilssonbooks.com/free_job_guidelines.htm)
"Nilsson Associates provides an important source of information, a highly respected PLCAA Consultant, and Best Selling author with our membership."
Professional Lawn Care Association of America
"Nilsson has some of the best ideas for the green industry ... their books have comprehensive in-depth coverage, knowledgeable step-by-step approach for business improvement"
PRO Magazine
"Our members have found your books extremely helpful. Thanks for your insight and creativity"
Professional Grounds Management Society
"Nilsson's books are must reads, and have helped our readers tremendously. Thanks for your continued support."
Landscaper Publications
"Your way of explaining the subject shows you know what we need to do to make money in this business, thanks."
H.L., Madison, Wisconsin
"Nilsson's series of books filled a void in our program ... Our students needed more insight into management, costs, profits, and how to successfully operate a business.
University of Tennessee, Horticulture Dept.
Nilsson Associates has the information you need to operate your lawn service or landscape business and make it a success. We offer one of the Largest Resources available in the Green Industry on the internet. Everything from how to sharpen a mower blade to how to manage a small or large, simple or complex business doing millions in sales! You can keep your lawn business small or grow it each year. It's up to you how far you go. Some are just interested in mowing lawns as a service, then add on landscape services, pruning, planting, trimming, shrubs, trees, plowing snow, and getting into bidding and estimating grounds maintenance, landscape installations, hardscapes, patios, retaining walls and waterscapes.
No mattter what services you want to offer, we have the technical and managment information you need that will save you time and money getting started. Take a look at our extensive line of lawn and landscape business books, audios, videos and employee training materials in English and Spanish. Start at the Nilsson Associatres home page www.nilssonbooks.com (http://www.nilssonbooks.com/) and scroll down the left side of the home page to locate the business problem you want a solution to. The index includes all these categories dealing with just about all lawn care, the best mowers, how to maximize profits in mowing, job bidding & pricing, what equipment to buy, lawns, grass, chemicals, fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, landscape company operations, irrigation, snow plowing, planting, pavement services and many others.
The instruction you will receive is affordable, and highly focused lawn and landscape business training that really works! And ... The ongoing personal support from our Landscape Industry Experts is the Best Professional Management & Ownership Training Program in the Lawn & Landscape Industry. With us assisting you every step of the way, your business will be up and running fast, making money, organized to win, separate itself from the competition, and on the "Path To A Rewarding Future."
For more information about Pricing Click Here for FREE Job Pricing Guidelines (http://nilssonbooks.com/free_job_guidelines.htm)
http://nilssonbooks.com/_borders/Phil-Nilsson-Picture.jpg
Phil Nilsson
"Best Selling Author"
by Nilsson Associates, Green Industry Consultants
www.nilssonbooks.com (http://www.nilssonbooks.com/)
For:
Lawn Care Operators
Grounds Maintenance Contractors
Landscape Design - Build - Maintain Companies
Snow Plowing Contractors
Schools - College & University Campus Grounds
Facility Managers
Real Estate Management Companies
In-House Maintenance Department Supervisors
No more trying to find the right words to explain, outline and describe your grounds maintenance contracts and landscaping job bids specifications. This book contains hundreds of samples of lawn - landscape - grounds maintenance bid specifications of contract bid language that fits any bidding situation. In each work category select the exact job bid terminology and work description that best fits your particular situation in your job bid work requirement spec (or) then add to or modify from the sample language sentences and paragraphs of work specifications given. Produce professional written specifications and avoid bidding unrealistic site spec. requirements of what to include and exclude.
A good set of bid specifications covers every element of the work and then explains that work specification element in full detail. A good set of specifications also covers what is not included so that work outside the specification will not be expected from the contractor since it hasn't been provided in the contract specification or paid for by the client customer. Covers summer and winter grounds maintenance contracts, work specs & elements and snow removal specifications, contract work and includes a list of work upsell contract options to look for on any bid site to boost sales. Includes all contract samples formats and proposal forms as examples and forms that can be modified for your use. Also has a complete model specification customer bid work proposal and full bid outline package tied to a bid price package.
Includes Specifications For:
Spring cleanups of lawns and beds
Pavement sweeping of parking areas, roads, lots and grounds
Lawn mowing of finished lawns and field areas
Chemical lawn applications
Chemical treatments to shrubs, plants and trees
Installation of mulch in beds
Edging of walks and shrub beds
Fall cleanup of leaves and debris
Winter maintenance programs
Tree pruning and removal
Clearing and cleanups following storm damage
Cleaning parking lot and road drains
Cleaning of roof gutters
Landscape accent areas
Reseeding, installing sod, planting trees & shrubs
Decorating a property for Christmas Holidays
Policing grounds
Weed controls in beds and lawns
Dethatching
Installation of flowers
Fertilization of lawns, shrubs & trees
Irrigation System repair
How to order
Writing The Maintenance Specifications
by Nilsson Associates
Book # C-2, Price $34.50
To order online Click Here: (http://nilssonbooks.com/job_bidding_pricing.htm#Writing The Maintenance Speci-fications)
To order by phone Toll Free 1-866-280-2252
http://nilssonbooks.com/guarantee.gif
Business
solution
links ...
Advertising (http://nilssonbooks.com/advertising_and_sales.htm) -
Bidding Jobs (http://nilssonbooks.com/job_bidding_pricing.htm) - (http://www.asharpdesign.com/nilsson/discounts_and_deals.htm)
Business Growth (http://nilssonbooks.com/mangement.htm) -
Business Plan (http://nilssonbooks.com/mangement.htm#Business Planning Workbook) -
Commercial (http://nilssonbooks.com/advertising_and_sales.htm#Selling To Commercial Customers) -
Company Policy (http://nilssonbooks.com/mangement.htm#Writing Your Company Policy Manual) -
Contract Cost (http://nilssonbooks.com/job_bidding_pricing.htm) -
Customers (http://nilssonbooks.com/advertising_and_sales.htm#Selling To Commercial Customers) -
Employees (http://nilssonbooks.com/employee.htm) -
Estimating (http://nilssonbooks.com/job_estimating_package.htm) -
Job Cost (http://nilssonbooks.com/job_bidding_pricing.htm#Labor Time Data Handbook) -
Job Specs (http://nilssonbooks.com/job_bidding_pricing.htm#Writing The Maintenance Speci-fications) -
Labor Time Data (http://nilssonbooks.com/job_bidding_pricing.htm#Labor Time Data Handbook) -
Maintenance (http://nilssonbooks.com/operations.htm#Grounds Maintenance Manual) -
Management (http://nilssonbooks.com/mangement.htm) -
Mowing Profits (http://nilssonbooks.com/operations.htm#Maximizing Profits In Mowing) -
Pricing (http://nilssonbooks.com/job_bidding_pricing.htm#Pricing Your Services) - Sales (http://nilssonbooks.com/advertising_and_sales.htm) -
Sales Letters (http://nilssonbooks.com/advertising_and_sales.htm#How To Write Effective Sales Letters) -
Sales Skills (http://nilssonbooks.com/advertising_and_sales.htm) -
Snow Removal (http://nilssonbooks.com/operations.htm#The Snow Removal Business) -
Subcontracting (http://nilssonbooks.com/employee.htm#Subcontracting the Work) -
Training Video (http://nilssonbooks.com/video_tapes.htm) -
Website Services (http://nilssonbooks.com/other_services.htm#Web Design) -
Winter Income (http://nilssonbooks.com/operations.htm)
Other
resources:
Sales Boosters (http://nilssonbooks.com/sales_booster_package.htm)
Job Estimating Package (http://nilssonbooks.com/job_estimating_package.htm)
FREE Job Pricing Guidelines (http://nilssonbooks.com/free_job_guidelines.htm)
New Business Startup Package (http://nilssonbooks.com/just_getting_started.htm)
Complete Operations Management System (http://nilssonbooks.com/coms_package.htm)
When it comes to pricing lawn and landscape jobs nobody has more landscape industry pricing information than Nilsson Associates, Green Industry Consultants. Nilsson's Job Price Guides covers lawn care bids, job bidding & estimating for tree care, irrigation installation & service, pavement sweeping & maintenance, snow plowing operations, landscaping and hardscaping job bids for both commercial & residential customers as well as real estate management, parks & recreation departments, municipalities, college and univeristy grounds. The prices cover; estimates & bids for grounds services, landscaping pricing estimates , estimating & bid the price seasonal work, year around commercial estimate contracts, price per square foot, best grounds maintenance & landscaping job to bid & pricing, price of lawn care, lawn mowing price, aeration pricing, lawns, commercial landscape job bid estimates, most all outdoor maintenance estimating & pricing, mulching prices, pricing chemicals, weeding & aerating pricing, fertilizer prices, prices for organic fertilizer, pricing weeds in beds, pricing pruning & trimming trees & shrubs, pricing commercial & residential snow plowing, hardscape pricing, pricing hydroseeding, irrigation service estimates for commercial & residential, pricing seeding lawns, pricing lawn sod, prices for slit seeding lawns, pricing edging lawn beds, spring cleanup prices, pricing fall cleanups, hourly price of pressure washing walks & patios, pricing trees, stump grinding prices, price for gutter cleaning, lawn dethatching price, price for shoveling snow, pricing salting, price for sanding.
For more information about Pricing Click Here for FREE Job Pricing Guidelines (http://nilssonbooks.com/free_job_guidelines.htm)
"Nilsson Associates provides an important source of information, a highly respected PLCAA Consultant, and Best Selling author with our membership."
Professional Lawn Care Association of America
"Nilsson has some of the best ideas for the green industry ... their books have comprehensive in-depth coverage, knowledgeable step-by-step approach for business improvement"
PRO Magazine
"Our members have found your books extremely helpful. Thanks for your insight and creativity"
Professional Grounds Management Society
"Nilsson's books are must reads, and have helped our readers tremendously. Thanks for your continued support."
Landscaper Publications
"Your way of explaining the subject shows you know what we need to do to make money in this business, thanks."
H.L., Madison, Wisconsin
"Nilsson's series of books filled a void in our program ... Our students needed more insight into management, costs, profits, and how to successfully operate a business.
University of Tennessee, Horticulture Dept.
Nilsson Associates has the information you need to operate your lawn service or landscape business and make it a success. We offer one of the Largest Resources available in the Green Industry on the internet. Everything from how to sharpen a mower blade to how to manage a small or large, simple or complex business doing millions in sales! You can keep your lawn business small or grow it each year. It's up to you how far you go. Some are just interested in mowing lawns as a service, then add on landscape services, pruning, planting, trimming, shrubs, trees, plowing snow, and getting into bidding and estimating grounds maintenance, landscape installations, hardscapes, patios, retaining walls and waterscapes.
No mattter what services you want to offer, we have the technical and managment information you need that will save you time and money getting started. Take a look at our extensive line of lawn and landscape business books, audios, videos and employee training materials in English and Spanish. Start at the Nilsson Associatres home page www.nilssonbooks.com (http://www.nilssonbooks.com/) and scroll down the left side of the home page to locate the business problem you want a solution to. The index includes all these categories dealing with just about all lawn care, the best mowers, how to maximize profits in mowing, job bidding & pricing, what equipment to buy, lawns, grass, chemicals, fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, landscape company operations, irrigation, snow plowing, planting, pavement services and many others.
The instruction you will receive is affordable, and highly focused lawn and landscape business training that really works! And ... The ongoing personal support from our Landscape Industry Experts is the Best Professional Management & Ownership Training Program in the Lawn & Landscape Industry. With us assisting you every step of the way, your business will be up and running fast, making money, organized to win, separate itself from the competition, and on the "Path To A Rewarding Future."
For more information about Pricing Click Here for FREE Job Pricing Guidelines (http://nilssonbooks.com/free_job_guidelines.htm)
http://nilssonbooks.com/_borders/Phil-Nilsson-Picture.jpg
Phil Nilsson
"Best Selling Author"