Explanation
The purpose of this legislation is to authorize the Director of Public Utilities to enter into a contract with Synagro Central, LLC for the purpose of providing Land Application of Biosolids with Regional Storage Services for the Division of Sewerage and Drainage. This contract provides the Department of Public Utilities, Division of Sewerage and Drainage the service of applying sewage sludge for agricultural purposes. The work generally shall include: the agronomic land application of up to 10% Total Solids (TS) liquid biosolids, tank pumping and cleaning services, the transport of 25% TS dewatered biosolids cake and transport of incinerator ash. The Contractor is responsible for professional management of the Land Application of Biosolids with Regional Storage program, which generally includes preparing site authorization requests, samples, daily activity reports, weekly progress reports, invoices and submitting this information to the City’s Project Manager. The contract is utilized by the Southerly Wastewater Treatment Plant, Jackson Pike Wastewater Treatment Plant and the Compost Facility.
The Department of Public Utilities solicited Requests for Proposals (RFP) in accordance with the pertinent provisions of Columbus City Code Chapter 329 (Solicitation SA003857) for professional service contracts. Two hundred forty-seven (247) vendors (220 MAJ, 3 MBR, 13 M1A, 10 F1, 1 AS1) were solicited and two proposals (2 MAJ) were received and opened on April 15, 2011. Discussions and negotiations with the selected firm, has resulted in this recommendation to award the contract to Synagro Central LLC. The term of this contract shall be from the date of execution by the City of Columbus to ten (10) years after execution, subject to the appropriation of funds on an approximately annual basis via contract modification for each year of the term. For each year of the ten year contract, funds for the services shall be reviewed, and expenditures shall be ...
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