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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: August 23, 2011 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. ~- r <br />SUBJECT• Authorize Piggyback Bid Award: Wheel Loader for Landfill <br />DEPARTMENT: Financial Services & PUBLIC HEARING: (YIN) No <br />Solid Waste Management <br />ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Gayle Wilson, Solid Waste <br />Management, 968-2885 <br />David Cannell, Financial Services, <br />245-2651 <br />PURPOSE: To consider authorizing the purchase of a Wheel Loader for the Landfill via <br />piggyback bid award from Gregory Poole of Raleigh, North Carolina. <br />BACKGROUND: A wheel loader was included in the 2011-2012 Solid Waste budget. This <br />piece of equipment has a bucket on the front and is used in multiple applications around the <br />Landfill. Among these applications are: <br />• Loading mulch into trucks for residents and contractors <br />• Unloading large bulky items <br />• Loading gravel and other materials on County trucks during the normal operation of the <br />Landfill <br />• Pushing yard waste when unloaded <br />• Pushing clean wood into piles when unloaded and for loading clean wood chips into <br />trailers for hauling <br />• Pushing tires <br />• Pushing clean metal and white goods and loading into trailers for hauling <br />It is anticipated that utilization of this equipment will not be impacted by the future closure of the <br />municipal solid waste landfill. <br />North Carolina General Statute 143-129 allows local governments to use the "piggy-back" <br />acquisition method to obtain items without a separate bid procedure. If a vendor is willing to <br />extend the same or more favorable price and other terms to the local government, the law <br />allows that the acquisition may be made from a contractor that has, within the past 12 months, <br />contracted to furnish the item to: (1) the federal government or any federal agency; (2) the State <br />