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REVISED <br />ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: .June 23, 2005 <br />Action Age, <br />Item No. <br />SUBJECT: RFP Award: Urban Curbside Recycling Services Contract <br />DEPARTMENT: Purchasing/Solid Waste PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />Management <br />ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Bid Tabulation Pam Jones, 245-2652 <br />Contract 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 award a bid and approve a contract for the provision of Urban Curbside Recycling <br />Collection Services effective October 1, 2005, <br />BACKGROUND: The Urban (or In-Town) Curbside Recycling Program provides weekly collection <br />services to single-family homes within the Towns of Carrboro, Chapel Hill, and Hillsborough. <br />The Department of Solid Waste Management has provided contracted curbside recycling services <br />since 1988. Previously, the contracts for rural and urban curbside have been awarded by competitive <br />bidding process, and then renewed as needed, provided service was acceptable and funds were <br />appropriated, In June 2001, the Rural and Urban Curbside Contracts were merged into a single <br />Curbside Recycling Contract, and the contract was reissued to Waste Industries for two years with a <br />two-year extension beyond that (through June 2005), Effective this Fiscal Year the County has de- <br />privatized Rural Curbside Recycling Collection services, and has begun the provision of Rural <br />Curbside Recycling Collection as aCounty-operated program as of June 1, 2005. <br />In November 2004, the County issued a Request for Statements of Qualifications (RFQ) from firms <br />capable of providing Urban Curbside Recycling Services, The purpose of the RFQ was to allow the <br />County to conduct a preliminary review in order to pre-qualify those responding to the RFQ, Those <br />pre-qualified received the Request for Proposals (RFP), Five vendors submitted Statements of <br />Qualification, and four of the five were subsequently pre-qualified to receive the County's Request for <br />Proposals. <br />The County issued a Request For Proposals #5112 in Febniary 2005. The RFP was sent to the four <br />prequalified vendors, and three of these four vendors attended a required pre-proposal conference, <br />Two vendors submitted Proposals in response to the County's RFP, A tabulation of this evaluation is <br />attached. The highest scoring proposal was submitted by Waste Industries, LLC, located in Durham, <br />NC. Waste Industries, LLC, has been determined by staff to be a responsible proposer, <br />