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103 <br />The County also intends to utilize Rehrig's Container Asset Recovery Tracking System <br />(C.A.R.T.S) for cart management and service verification program and will require the Service <br />Provider to pay for the cost of the service verification portion of the system. <br />The County intends to require the Service Provider to use an RFID system to be mounted to the <br />collection vehicles that is equivalent to the Rehrig's All -In -One RFID Reader (RPCAIO- RFID <br />Reader). The truck - mounted readers must be compatible with the C.A.R.T.S program. The RFID <br />systems on the Service Provider's collection vehicles must be able to transmit their data to <br />Rehrig's C.A.R.T.S. asset management, service verification and data management software <br />through cellular (real time data transfer) network. <br />The Service Provider must indicate as part of its proposal, its specific experience and familiarity <br />with RFID systems and its maintenance department's capability to manage and move the <br />readers' properly. <br />Service Providers offering a proposal can state their preferred options for readers but the County <br />requires that the Service Provider's proposed hardware system will easily communicate and <br />coordinate data collection with the County's use of Rehrig's C.A.R.T.S. program. Reader Data <br />Communication to servers should connect through the CDMA GSM Module (for real -time <br />communications). <br />D. Collection Impediments <br />Some routes may have a number of collection impediments that may require special effort to <br />accomplish this level of service. <br />On Street Parking. <br />Certain neighborhood streets permit "on- street parking" which may present <br />impediments to Residential Recycling Collection Services, especially automated <br />Services. <br />2. Southern Village (Narrow Alleys) <br />There is a neighborhood in Chapel Hill that includes about 525 single family and <br />attached single family residences (See Attachment C) that have private service <br />alleys in the rear of the unit. These residences currently get their garbage collected <br />in the service alleys. The service alleys behind the homes do not meet town <br />standard, thus may be too narrow for a side loading vehicle to collect and the <br />turning radiuses do not accommodate standard collection vehicles. These <br />residences currently have their 18 gallon bins collected in the front of each unit on <br />the street. <br />It is desired by County that these units are served with carts at the same cost as all <br />other units, however the County understands that this may not be possible and <br />requests that the proposers evaluate the possibility of collecting Recycling Carts in <br />these service alleys, verse the public street, and clearly indicate the additional cost, <br />if any, of adding this special service to the program. <br />3. Narrow Streets with difficult collection points <br />If an area is permanently inaccessible to the standard collection vehicle due to street <br />configuration, width, topography, or other existing built environmental characteristics, <br />but said area is not blocked due to construction or some other obstacle, County may <br />require Service Provider to provide service from an alternative collection vehicle such <br />RFP #5199 Page 11 of 26 <br />