City of Columbus - File #: 0639-2014

• File #: 0639-2014
• Version: 1
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed
• File created: 3/6/2014
• In control: Environment Committee
• On agenda: 4/7/2014
• Final action: 4/8/2014
• Title: To authorize the Director of Public Service to modify and extend the contract amount with Murphy Epson, Inc., for the City’s Recycling and Yard Waste Public Relations Campaign contract; to authorize the expenditure of up to $135,000.00 from the General Fund, Division of Refuse Collection; to waive the formal competitive bidding requirements of Columbus City Code; and to declare an emergency. ($135,000.00)

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
4/8/2014	1	CITY CLERK	Attest
4/8/2014	1	MAYOR	Signed
4/7/2014	1	COUNCIL PRESIDENT	Signed
4/7/2014	1	Columbus City Council	Approved	Pass

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 and bidding waiver to extend the contract for an additional year, through December 31, 2014.

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.

These changes require marketing and outreach efforts for resident education that will need to continue through the end of 2014. Extending the contract will allow this effort to be done by the consulting team already familiar with the program, allowing the marketing and outreach efforts to continue uninterrupted during this period of program change and expansion.

This contract modification will add $135,000 to the contract amount. The total amount of the contract is as follows:

$330,000.00 Original Contract Amount (EL012329)
$100,000.00 Amount of Modification #1 (EL013025)
$ 30,000.00 Amount of modification #2 (EL015084)
$135,000.00 Amount of modification #3 (this modification)
$595,000.00 Total contract amount including all modifications

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