DATE: June 30, 2017
TO: Board of Mayor and Aldermen
FROM: Eric Stuckey, City Administrator
Kristine Tallent, Assistant City Administrator for Finance & Administration / CFO
Mark Hilty, Assistant City Administrator for Public Works
Becky Caldwell, Director of Sanitation & Environmental Services
Brian Wilcox, Purchasing Manager
SUBJECT:
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*Consider Recommendation To Reject All Bids For Municipal Solid Waste Sanitary Landfill Disposal Services, For The Sanitation And Environmental Services Department (Purchasing Office Procurement Solicitation No. 2017-009) (06/27/17 WS)
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Purpose
The purpose of this procurement would be to purchase municipal solid waste sanitary landfill disposal services, for the Sanitation and Environmental Services Department.
Background
Since 2012, the City has been party to an ongoing arrangement with Bi-County Solid Waste Management System ("Bi-County"), a Tennessee solid waste authority created by interlocal agreement by and between the Montgomery County government and the Stewart County government, for municipal solid waste transport and sanitary landfill disposal services for the City's municipal solid waste stream that is processed at the City's Solid Waste Transfer Station. Services pursuant to this arrangement with Bi-County were, until June 16, 2017, to be rendered through June 30, 2017. On June 16, 2017, the City issued to Bi-County a notice of intent to exercise the second of four three-year options to extend, to June 30, 2020, the term of the 2012 Interlocal Agreement between Bi-County and the City for the transport and disposal of solid waste (City of Franklin contract no. 2012-0023). Per the 2012 Interlocal Agreement with Bi-County, the decision to exercise any of the options to extend the term of the 2012 Interlocal Agreement is exclusively that of the City. Also per the 2012 Interlocal Agreement with Bi-County, the City, in its sole discretion, may choose to exercise an exclusive option to termi...
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