What a Large-Scale Garden Maintenance Contract Should Actually Cover
Home garden maintenance and large-scale grounds-keeping share a name but not much else in practice. A multi-acre corporate campus or township has irrigation infrastructure spanning the whole site, multiple planting zones with different needs, and a facilities team that needs documentation, not just tidy lawns.
A properly scoped AMC (annual maintenance contract) should specify staffing — how many people are on-site and how often, and whether they're employed directly by the vendor or subcontracted. It should separate planting maintenance (mowing, pruning, feeding, pest management) from irrigation maintenance, since the second is where problems most often get missed on a generic contract.
Reporting is the other piece that's easy to skip in a low-cost quote but expensive to miss later: monthly reports covering work completed, irrigation issues found and fixed, and any replacement planting, give a facilities team what they need for their own audits and give you a paper trail if something goes wrong.
We run AMC contracts for campuses, townships and institutions as a SAP-registered vendor with tender experience, and this is close to the checklist we'd suggest reviewing before signing with any provider, including us — a five-minute conversation up front on scope and reporting saves a lot of disputes at the six-month mark.
