Explanation
1. BACKGROUND
The Department of Public Service has a Recycling and Yard Waste Public Relations Campaign contract with Murphy Epson to provide consulting, marketing, and outreach services for the curbside recycling program. This ordinance authorizes a contract modification to extend the contract end date to 3/31/2015 to allow completion of existing projects.
The contract was originally put in place through a bid award authorized by Ordinance 1766-2011 for work needed in conjunction with what would eventually become the City’s yard waste and recyclables contract with Rumpke of Ohio, approved by Ordinance 0088-2012 on February 1, 2012. The City of Columbus, in its continual efforts to be environmentally friendly and a "Green" community, determined it was in the best interest of the City to make changes to the terms and conditions of the City’s yard waste and recyclables contract with Rumpke of Ohio. Ordinance 0976-2013 authorized changes to be made to the terms and conditions of that contract. The changes included splitting the five recycling collection zones into ten zones and expanding the program’s services to multi-family dwellings.
Those changes required marketing and outreach efforts for resident education that were anticipated to the end 12/31/2014. Extending the Recycling and Yard Waste Public Relations Campaign contract allowed this effort to be done by the consulting team already familiar with the program, allowing the marketing and outreach efforts to continue uninterrupted during the period of program change and expansion. The marketing and outreach effort in support of the zone change and program expansion to multi-family dwellings is not yet complete. This legislation authorizes the contract term to be extended to 3/31/2015 so these efforts can be completed.
This contract modification is executed to extend the term of the contract and does not require additional funds to be legislated. The total amount of the contract is as f...
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