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Recommendation to adopt Specifications No. PA-03012 Rebid and authorize City Manager to execute contracts and all related documents with EDCO Waste Services, LLC, a Long Beach-based business (Local; not an MBE, WBE or SBE), and Consolidated Disposal Service, LLC, of Santa Fe Springs (not an MBE, WBE, SBE or Local), for providing diversion of green waste debris services, in an estimated combined annual amount not to exceed $200,000, for a period of one year, with the option to renew for two additional one-year periods, at the discretion of the City Manager. (Citywide)
DISCUSSION
City Council approval is requested to enter into annual contracts with EDCO Waste Services, LLC (EDCO), and Consolidated Disposal Services, LLC (Consolidated Disposal), for providing diversion of green waste debris services.
Green waste includes tree trimmings, brush, limbs, palm fronds and trunks generated from tree trimming and other shrub removal operations. This debris is collected by the contractor at various City locations and transported to a facility to be used as an alternate daily cover at landfill sites. The Department of Public Works, Street Maintenance Division, oversees the coordination of these services.
The City has an ongoing need for these services as a result of its tree trimming operations. The City enters into multiple contracts to ensure timely green waste diversion services. In the instance of a large storm with many fallen trees or tree limbs, it is effective to have two contractors for this service. Under these contracts, the contractors will be required to convert green waste debris to alternative daily cover, with a diversion rate of 95 percent for EDCO and 99 percent for Consolidated Disposal. This diversion rate exceeds the State of California Assembly Bill 939 goal of 50 percent regarding source reduction and recycling.
The bid was advertised in the Press-Telegram on July 24, 2012, and 306 potential bidders specializing in green waste div...
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