Chop and Slash LLP.
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1490 31 St. Suite 15, Longview, Montana 79432
Phone: (809)564-5900 Fax: (809)465-8528
April 18,2014
Mr. Thomas Schwartz, Mayor
City of Augusta, Oregon
1325 Main St. Office 100
Augusta, Oregon 69875
Dear Mayor Schwartz,
We at Chop and Slash have read your request for proposal in the "The Thompson Times". We specialize
in quick, efficient, and cost effective landscape care. This proposal will show you that Chop and Slash is
the safest, most up-to-date, and lowest cost service. We can offer bid price of $30,400 with $23,040
labor cost included. We know what we have to offer can make a difference in how your city looks.
Our Company
Chop and Slash was founded in 1957 by Mark Wigbo. He started by mowing his neighbor's lawns. He
dominated the lawn care market within 10 years. We continue his passion by offering low cost services
with the same results as our high cost competitors. We help pave the way for other lawn care service,
because we have use the most advance equipment available.
Our Plan
Bellow are two charts to explain the amount of people on each site, the amount of mowers on each
site, and the time table for mowing.
Staff and Equipment
People On Each Site
Mowing Equipment on Each site
Safety
Mowers
Highway Median
10
4
4
Park
7
9
9
Golf Course
5
10
10
Mowing Times
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday Wednesday
Thursday
Friday Saturday
Highway Median
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
12pm-4pm
N/A
N/A
Park
N/A
6am- 10am
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Golf Course
6am-10am
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Our staff and equipment amounts are based on a survey of the mowing sites. We would require a large
safety crew on the highway because of increased tourist traffic this time of the year. We would also
require a large amount of mowers on the golf course because of its complexity.
The times that are listed are not permanently set. You may move times if you want. However, we chose
these certain times to avoid vehicle and foot traffic. It is important that the Golf Course be mowed on
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Sunday mornings. We would chose Sunday because the course wouldn't open until 11 am. Mowing
while the course is closed should prevent our services from interfering with any golfers.
Cost
We know that cost is a major factor when performing services for a small town. We are one of the
lowest cost lawn services in the nation. We stick to our budget. We have been $265 under budget, on
average, over the last 10 years with 25 different clients. We take pride in our ability to finish under
budget. We hope to continue this trend with your city. All of our prices are based on four characteristics:
usage fees, fuel, safety crews, and mowing crews.
We have visited the sites and designed the following two budget charts:
High Way Median
Park
Golf Course
Total
Equipment and Maintenance
Usage Fee
Total Fee
Fee Per Week
$320
$20
$720
$45
$800
$50
Fuel Cost
Total Fee
Fee Per Week
$960
$60
$2160
$135
$2400
$150
$7,360
Our usage fee covers all costs related to maintenance. This cost ensures that our equipment will
efficiently and safely complete the job. Each piece of equipment requires only $5 a day to maintain.
Our fuel cost covers all expenses for gas and oil. The oil is used to lubricate moving parts on the
equipment. The cost for fuel requires an average of $15 a day.
Labor
Safety Crew
Mowing Crew
Total Fee
Hours
Fee Per Hour
Total Fee
Hours
Fee Per Hour
High Way Median
$5,120
64
$80
$2,048
64
$32
Park
$3,584
64
$56
$4,608
64
$72
Golf Course
$2,560
64
$40
$5,120
64
$80
Total Labor Hours
Total Labor Cost
384
$23,040
Our safety crew cost helps to prevent accidents. The crew picks up objects and surveys the area before
each job.
Finally, the mowing crew cost is used for lawn mower operators. The mower’s primary job is to
efficiently and safely mow the terrain.
The price bellow shows the total price for the bid:
Total Bid
$30,400
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Past Jobs
Over the past 10 years we worked with 25 different clients. Our clients range from The City of New York
to Lewisville Missouri. Lewisville has a population of 4,000.
In 2009, our company took a contract with the City of New York. Our duty was to mow and trim Central
Park. They have allowed us to use them as a reference. If you would like to hear of our great work you
can call the New York City Planning Office at: (902)793-3000
In 2010, our company worked with the City of Lewisville Missouri. We worked with them for three years
until they were annexed by St. Louis. The jobs included mowing three parks and two major freeways.
They awarded our President, Mr. Wigbo, the key to the city to show their appreciation of our work in
2012.
We also have won multiple awards in lawn care and customer service:
Chop and Slash
Best Lawn Care Customer Service
Awarded in 2013
Completely Satisfied Clients 10 Years
Running
Best Lawn Care Company in 2011
Safety
Chop and Slash's main priority has always been safety. In 1960, we were one of the first lawn companies
to install guards on our mowers. Today we continue our mission to keep your community and
environment safe.
Our safety crew has been trained by the mower manufacture, OSHA, and is required to attend all 3
national safety conventions. Our safety crews main jobs is to place cones to direct traffic, pick up small
objects that could become projectiles, and to survey for wildlife that could be effected by our mowers.
When working onsite at your locations our team would keep things safe. For instance, our team has
already begun a safety plan for mowing your highway:
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A-Team: Direct traffic away from mowers and lay cones. Also divert pedestrians.
B-Team: Pick up objects that may become projectiles and injure people or drivers.
C-Team: Check for wildlife especially near the wooded area at the 93rd over pass.
These three teams would do similar jobs on the other two sites. Nevertheless, we know that tourism is
your city's main profit. We want to ensure that our work will drive even more tourism into your town
and keep current tourist safe.
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Safety (cont’)
Not only does our team ease safety concerns our equipment does as well. All of our mowers are John
Deere 1600T Wide Area Mowers. These mowers come equipped with an on board diagnostic. John
Deere says this about their diagnostic system:
“The system allows for quick sensor safety checks and avoids downtime.”
The sensors three capabilities:
Sophisticated on board Diagnostic Screen
1. Diver Awareness- Measures 20 aspects of driving and alerts the driver when they need to take a
break.
2. Obstruction- Sounds an alarm when an object is higher than one foot and in front of the mower.
3. Oncoming Mower Alert- Warns driver when another mower is too close to avoid collision.
These are just some of the safety features that our mowers have. We will discuss more about our
mowers performance in the next section of this proposal.
Equipment
Chop and Slash has come a long way since our first push mower in 1957.
Today we use only John Deere 1600t Wide Area mowers. The photo on the
right shows Mr. John driving the 1600t. The picture should show you the
quality of our mowers. These wide area mowers are considered to be one
of the best mowers for almost any terrain. These mowers have exceptional
capabilities, as stated by Deere:
Thomas John using the Deere 1600t
“There are other wide area mowers available but none that offer the 1600T’s combination of
incredibly high torque (159 Nm), advanced impact protection, flexibility of mowing
configurations and the industry’s only top-draw cooling system. So not only can this mower
handle extremely high volume but it can keep mowing continuously hour after hour, day after
day.”
The mowers allow us to finish jobs fast while saving fuel. Overall it efficiently and safely saves you
money and the hassle of long completion times.
Conclusion
We hope that what we presented can convince you to choose Chop and Slash. We know we can offer
one of the lowest prices but still deliver a quality outcome. If you have any questions about our team or
our services, call us at : (809)564-5900. This number will call our project director.
Thank You,
Mitchell Gross,
Project Manager of District II
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