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Public tree contract bids: whole bid tabulations from public agencies

Bid tabulations for tree removal, stump grinding and on-call tree crews from public agencies, with every bid shown as published and no averages.

Checked against the sources at the bottom of this page on October 9, 2026. Rules, fees and pay change: the source has the last word.

This page reports public bid tabulations for tree work as the agencies published them. These are government contract prices from one sheet each, not market quotes and not advice. Where a sheet has its own page, the page shows the whole tabulation: every line, every bid, with the bidders shown only as Bidder A, Bidder B and Bidder C in the order the sheet lists them. This site does not average, rank or sum up prices across sheets.

What a bid tabulation is

A tabulation is the agency's own record of a sealed bid opening. It lists the work items the agency asked prices for, the agency's estimated quantity for each, and what each bidder wrote as a unit price and line total. Government contracts differ from a quote to a tree owner. The quantities are the agency's guesses used to compare bids, a contract may be on call with no minimum, and an agency may add its own conditions on who can bid. The sheets name the bidding firms. This site shows letters instead and links the sheet.

The sheets

The ten sheets below were read in October 2026. The first seven have their own pages. The last three are shown as table rows with a link to the agency's sheet.

Agency, contract and pricingBids openedWhere to read it
North Carolina Department of Transportation, Division 6, Cumberland and Harnett counties, D6D2.SBE.017, 4 bidders, priced by hour, day, each and linear footMarch 4, 2026Whole sheet on its own page
Clark County, Washington, invitation to bid 2803, 2 named bidders and a third column with no name, priced by crew hour and stump inchNovember 18, 2025Whole sheet on its own page
City of Yakima, Washington, project 22533 tree trimming, pruning and removal, 4 bidders, priced by two-person crew hour and day with extra crew, stump grinding, travel and traffic control lines, regular and emergency ratesJune 20, 2025Whole sheet on its own page
North Carolina Department of Transportation, Division 6, Cumberland and Harnett counties, D6D2.SBE.014, 3 bidders, priced by hour, day, each and linear footNovember 6, 2024Whole sheet on its own page
North Carolina Department of Transportation, Division 6, Bladen and Columbus counties, D6D3.SBE.016, 7 bidders, priced by hour, day, each and linear footAugust 21, 2024Whole sheet on its own page
North Carolina Department of Transportation, Division 6, Bladen and Columbus counties, D6D3.SBE.009, 6 bidders, priced by hour, day, each and linear footSeptember 29, 2021Whole sheet on its own page
Clark County, Washington, bid 2714, 3 bidders, priced each by diameter band in DBHOctober 27, 2020Whole sheet on its own page
Phoenixville Borough, Pennsylvania, 2026 tree removal bid summary, 5 bidders, tree and stump removal in one price per tree in five DBH classes, each with an estimated tree countNot printed on the sheetRead the borough bid summary
PWC, the Fayetteville Public Works Commission, PWC2526046 storm support tree and stump removal, 1 bid on the sheet, priced by crew hour, worker hour, stump, tree or hour, load, ton and eventFebruary 3, 2026Read the agency bid tabulation
City of Yakima, project 11502 tree trimming and removal, preliminary tabulation, 5 bidders, priced by two-person crew hour and day with extra crew, stump grinding and travel linesMarch 26, 2015Read the city bid tabulation

What differs from sheet to sheet

The lines are not alike. The North Carolina sheets price a bucket truck crew and a chipper crew by the hour, tree removal and stump grinding each in six diameter sizes, overhang clearing by the linear foot and traffic control by the day. The Clark County sheet of 2025 prices a three-person crew by the hour. The county's 2020 sheet prices each tree by diameter band. The Phoenixville sheet prices tree and stump removal together. A price on one sheet is for that sheet's definition of the item, so this page does not set prices from different sheets side by side.

Tax is shown differently too. The two Clark County sheets add Washington State sales tax as a separate line below the sub-total, at 8.4 percent on the 2020 sheet and 8.5 percent on the 2025 sheet. The North Carolina sheets print no tax line.

The North Carolina Division 6 contracts

All four North Carolina sheets come from the Department of Transportation's Division 6 office in Fayetteville, under the department's small business enterprise program. The proposals say a bidder needs an annual income of US$1,500,000 or less for the previous calendar year and must be certified by the department. The NCDOT small business enterprise page says businesses with incomes of less than US$1.5 million, minus materials, are eligible to certify. The proposals say a North Carolina general contractor's licence is not required under the program, and that payment and performance bonds are not required.

The 2024 and 2026 proposals call the contract a state funded ID/IQ non-exclusive contract with a limit of US$1,000,000 per year. They say no minimum quantity is guaranteed, and that work orders go to whichever awarded contractor has the lowest cost for the line items and estimated quantities of that work order, using each awardee's unit prices. The 2021 contract has a limit of US$500,000 per year. The department's proposals also say the contract may be extended for further one-year periods, with the price adjustment rule written into each proposal. Each child page gives its own proposal's dates and renewal wording.

The Clark County sheets

Clark County's bids page says its results appear as tab sheet attachments on each listing, with an Awarded to field. The 2025 sheet has three columns and only the first carries prices. The 2020 sheet has three bidders priced on every line. The two sheets share the county and the on-call idea but not the pricing basis.

Rows without their own page

Three sheets stay as rows because their pages would repeat little beyond the sheet. The Phoenixville summary prints no opening date and no agency conditions. The PWC sheet shows one bid, and prints this disclaimer: inclusion of a bid on the tab does not indicate that the bid is being considered for award. The 2015 Yakima sheet is headed preliminary bid tabulation and gives a five year contract term. The city's newer 2025 sheet has its own page. Each row links the agency's own file.

For what tree work costs a tree owner, see why tree work costs what it does, and for checking a firm see checking a tree company.

Bid tabulations with their own page

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