ITB-Refuse Collection Vehicles - Refuse Collection Vehicles

Summary of Specifications:
The City, is soliciting bids from qualified providers to furnish and deliver six automated side-load refuse bodies and chassis in 2007. Potentially, the City may choose to purchase from the successful bidder more units of a similar nature in successive years as the Solid Waste Division begins a multi-year effort to replace all existing refuse vehicles and eventually place all equipment on a five-year replacement schedule. Such purchases shall only be made if appropriations are approved by City Council in subsequent budget years and if pricing can be agreed upon by both parties. At present, the replacement schedule is as follows: 2007: Six automated side-loaders 2008: Six automated side-loaders 2009: Two automated side-loaders 2010: Four automated side-loaders This replacement schedule, however, should in no way represent any commitment on the part of the City to purchase any additional vehicles from the successful bidder. 

It is also the City’s intent to sell all vehicles back to the vendor after five years of use. The price proposed for buy-back will be a determining factor in bid award.