This is a service / maintenance or supply contract in Duluth, Georgia. Contact the soliciting agency for additional information.

For Collection of Solid Waste Collection of residential refuse, residential recyclable material, residential yard waste, residential bulk waste and commercial/industrial refuse and recycling For the collection of refuse (including but not limited to waste, garbage, refuse matter, filth, food scraps, rubbish, paper, recyclable matter, decayed matter and matter likely to decay) generated in the City; including residential refuse, commercial and industrial refuse utilizing permanent containers as well as a program for the collection of recyclable materials, bulk and yard waste. The City of Duluth hopes to achieve a reliable solid waste management strategy to collect refuse in accordance with State law requiring municipalities to reduce solid waste within the City while providing a cost savings to the City and its citizens, to ensure a reduction of collection vehicles utilizing its streets, give assurance that service providers providing waste collection services are insured and capable of performing the service in a competent manner, and providing for recourse by the City against service providers should complaints be received and a financial benefit to the City in the form of franchise fees for the collection of residential/commercial/industrial refuse Residential Refuse and Recycling, Residential Bulk and Yard Waste, and Commercial/Industrial Refuse and Recycling. It is believed that typically there are efficiencies of scale where one company can handle all of the services and this proposal will allow the City to determine the relative discounts and benefits to the citizens and businesses receiving services and the City. The awarded proposer will enter into a one-year contract that may be automatically renewed on an annual basis for additional twelve-month terms, for a total lifetime contract term of up to five (5) years. The contract will indicate the City is to receive a franchise fee on four per cent 4% of the total commercial and industrial receipts Questions submittal deadline February 1, 2023 Responses to questions issued February 8, 2023 Acknowledgement of Proposals (2:05pm EST) City Hall February 21, 2023 Presentation to City Council March 27, 2023 (tentative) Approval of Contract by City Council April 10, 2023 (tentative) Contract start date May 1, 2024 (tentative) A proposal bond or certified check must accompany the Proposal(s), in accordance with the proposal instructions. The City reserves the right to reject any or all Proposals, to waive irregularities, clerical errors and/or informalities in any Proposal, and to make an award in any manner, consistent with law, deemed in the best interest of the City. Price shall not be the sole consideration in awarding the contract. The City reserves the right to accept any portion of the RFP. Each Proposal must be accompanied by a bond or a certified check of the proposer, drawn on a national bank, in an amount equal to $10,000 as a guarantee on the part of the proposer that it will, if called upon to do so, accept and enter into a contract as mutually agreed upon by the City and the selected proposer to do the work covered by such Proposal and at the rates stated therein and to furnish a corporate surety for its faithful and entire fulfillment. Checks and bonds will be returned promptly after the City and the selected proposer have executed the Contract, or, if no proposal has been selected within one hundred twenty (120) days after the date of the opening of the proposal, upon demand of the proposer at any time thereafter, so long as it has not been notified of the acceptance of its Proposal The Contract shall be deemed as having been awarded upon the vote or resolution of the Governing Body of the City to the proposer. Formal notice of such award will be mailed to the proposer by certified mail, return receipt requested. The proposer to whom the Contract shall have been awarded will be required to execute four (4) copies of a Contract mutually agreed upon by the City and the selected proposer and to furnish insurance certificates as required. In case of the proposer's refusal or failure to do so within twenty (20) days after its receipt of formal notice of award, proposer will be considered to have abandoned all rights and interest in the award, and proposer's proposal security shall be declared forfeited to the City as liquidated damages, and the award may then be made to the next best qualified proposer of the work, or re-advertised for Proposal as the City may elect. Such forfeited security shall be the sole remedy of the City. The Proposal(s) shall be accompanied by a letter from a corporate surety satisfactory to the City stating that a Performance Bond will be furnished by it to the person submitting the Proposal in the event it is the successful proposer(s). Such letter is to be signed by an authorized representative of the surety together with a certified and effectively dated copy of the Power of Attorney attached thereto. The successful proposer(s) will be required to furnish a Performance Bond as security for the faithful performance of this contract. Said Performance Bond must be in an amount of $150,000. Premium for the bonds described above shall be paid by the proposer. A certificate from the surety showing that the bond premiums are paid in full shall accompany the executed contract. The surety on the bond shall be a duly authorized corporate surety company authorized to do business in the State of Georgia