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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: December 6, 2004 <br />Action Agenda m <br />Item No. ~_ <br />SUBJECT: Bid Award: Glass Crusher for Orange County Recycling <br />DEPARTMENT: Purchasing/Solid Waste <br />PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />Bid Tabulation <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Pam Jones, 245-2652 <br />Gayle Wilson, 968-2885 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br />Durham 688-7331 <br />Mebane 336-227-2031 <br />PURPOSE: To consider awarding a bid for a glass crusher from Andela Products, LTD of <br />Richfield Springs, New York far Orange County recycling operations. <br />BACKGROUND: At the May 4, 2004 BOCC meeting, the Board accepted a grant from the <br />North Carolina Division of Pollution Prevention and Environmental Assistance (DPPEA) in the <br />amount of $25,000 in order to purchase a glass pulverizing machine that creates alternative <br />products from unmarketable glass. Staff expects that the glass crusher will process green <br />glass, other loads of glass that include ceramics, and other difficult- to-market glass products. <br />The cutlet produced by the crusher can be used in landfill operations as roadway bedding, <br />drainage medium, landfill cover, and other uses, reducing quantities of stone and gravel usually <br />used for these purposes. The Town of Chapel Hill has expressed an interest in considering use <br />of the product to be used far a running trail base material. Other potential uses will be explored <br />depending on the quantity of cn~shed glass product available. <br />Bid specifications were developed and advertised on Purchasing 's website. Bids were solicited <br />from five vendors. Andela Products, LTD of Richfield Springs, New York submitted the lowest <br />responsible bid of the two submittals received at a delivered cost of $32,900. <br />FINANCIAL IMPACT: Total cost of this action, if approved by the Board, would be $32,900. <br />The DPPEA grant would fund $25,000 of the purchase price, with the other $7,900 being <br />allocated from funds already available in the Department's FY 2004-05 budget. <br />RECOMMENDATION(S): The Manager recommends that the Board award a bid for a GP-05 <br />Glass Crusher to Andela Products, LTD of Richfield Springs, New York in the amount of <br />$32,900; and authorize the Purchasing Director to execute the necessary paperwork. <br />