A. The Contractor shall be required to accept wastes for disposal and recyclables for processing and marketing at one or multiple acceptance facilities. The Contractor may offer a single acceptance facility for both wastes and recyclables or an acceptance facility for both wastes and recyclables separately. B. The Contractor shall furnish sufficient facilities, equipment, labor, financial capability, and experience to begin accepting materials from DMIAAB by July 1, 2025. C. The Contractor shall provide or act as a recycling market outlet for the acceptable recyclables during the term of the Agreement with DMIAAB regardless of market fluctuations. The Contractor shall not store or warehouse materials in violation of health and safety standards and shall conform to all requirements of the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection and other state and/or federal agencies. D. The Contractor is encouraged to offer its capacity to coordinate additional diversion initiatives for other materials in the waste stream, including but not limited to scrap metal, leaves, yard waste, other organics, and compostable items, tires, large bulky items, construction and renovation debris, white goods, electronic waste, batteries, fluorescent lamps, and any other material specified by DMIAAB. E. All acceptance facilities shall have calibrated truck scales to record the weight of all delivered loads and must have a process to accurately record the weight and time of all deliveries so that material quantities can be accurately weighed and accounted for in reporting. F. DMIAAB or their designated representatives have the right to make periodic inspections of any acceptance facility, or any downstream facility location listed by the Company as proposed under this Request for Proposal. G. DMIAAB shall cause their agents, including (but not limited to) crews collecting and delivering wastes and recyclables, to perform their services in a responsible and efficient manner. H. It is the intent of DMIAAB to deliver wastes and recyclables depending on the volume received at DMIAAB's transfer station. Minimally, acceptance facilities for waste shall be available to receive materials Mondays through Saturdays, from 7:00 a.m., until 4:00 p.m., and acceptance facilities for recyclables processing shall be available to receive materials Mondays through Saturdays from 7:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., with holiday observances for New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, and any other days DMIAAB may choose to designate in writing. These times may be changed upon mutual agreement of the parties. I. The Contractor shall give DMIAAB priority consideration in weighing and offloading operations. The maximum total waiting/tipping time from arrival at an acceptance facility to departure from the acceptance facility shall not exceed one- half hour (30 minutes) per truck. J. The Contractor shall provide monthly, quarterly, and annual reports to DMIAAB, documenting the total quantities of wastes and recyclables accepted, associated charges for wastes, and recycling rebates. K. The Contractor shall provide monthly consolidated invoices to DMIAAB. Invoices shall contain both the disposal fee as a charge and the recyclable material revenues as a credit, with the net monthly fee owed by DMIAAB. L. DMIAAB will not guarantee any minimum or maximum quantity of wastes or recyclables. DMIAAB's historical municipal storage waste amounts are available upon request. M. DMIAAB shall require the Contractor to have reliable waste disposal and recycle processing, and the Contractor shall demonstrate appropriate operating contingencies and redundancies. N. The Contractor may submit a bid that includes transportation services in addition to disposal.
