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CONTRACT K-1213-180: A CONTRACT BY AND BETWEEN THE NORMAN MUNICIPAL AUTHORITY AND ALLIED WASTE SYSTEMS, INC. TO PROVIDE RESIDENTIAL CURBSIDE RECYCLING COLLECTION SERVICES.
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BACKGROUND: The City began offering curbside recycling service after Norman voters approved an additional mandatory $3 rate for the new service in 2007. The initial contract (K-0708-101; approved October 23, 2007) for the service was with Waste Management of Oklahoma and included weekly pickup of an eighteen (18) gallon bin of recyclables from single-family dwellings in urban Norman only. Recyclables under the contract with Waste Management include newsprint, magazines, office and mixed paper, phonebooks, soda bottles, aluminum, steel and tin cans, glass bottles, and #1-7 plastics. Cardboard products, including corrugated cardboard, chipboard, and boxboard are not acceptable recyclables under the 2007 contract with Waste Management. Under the 2007 contract, recyclables were to be separated into two streams by the Contractor as the recyclables were collected at the curb (“dual-stream”).
Six months prior to the expiration of the contract with Waste Management, staff began putting together a Request for Proposal (RFP) for curbside recycling service with the goal of providing the Council/Norman Municipal Authority Trustees (NMA) with options for other scenarios previously not considered to be viable. Request for Proposal RFP-1213-57 was issued on November 30, 2012 and allowed for proposals on four different options. The options included:
· Dual-stream weekly pickup from single-family dwellings in urban Norman with transportation to and processing of recyclables;
· Single-stream bi-weekly pickup from single-family dwellings in urban Norman with transportation to and processing of recyclables;
· Single-stream bi-weekly pickup for multi-family dwellings in urban Norman with transportation to and processing of recyclables; and
· Provision of a Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) for pr...
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