REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS RFP1058-022616
DIVISION OF PUBLIC WORKS SOLID WASTE DEPARTMENT
CITY OF NASHUA NH
SINGLE STREAM RECYCLABLE MATERIALS PROCESSING
The Division of Public Works, Solid Waste Department seeks proposals for transporting and processing single
stream recyciable materials collected from the City of Nashua’s recycling program. The following services shall
be included: providing the necessary 100-yard trailers (quantities as determined by the Division of Public Works)
at the Nashua Recycling Center and transporting materials to the vendor's Single Stream Materials Reprocessing
Facility (MRF), and sorting, preparing and marketing the materials.
1. INSTRUCTIONS
The specifications herein describe the minimum acceptable features and performance requirements for
providing this service. Vendors shall own and / or operate the processing facility where recyclables from
Nashua will be handled.
Vendors are to have thoroughly read and understood these specifications prior to proposal submission.
Vendors are required to submit proposals on the Forms provided. A summary of the vendor's proposal shall
be submitted in Attachment A, “PROPOSAL SUMMARY.”
Any deviation from the specifications, as listed by the City in this RFP, should be highlighted and explained in
the PROPOSAL SUMMARY.
Contracts are subject to funding approval. All proposals are binding for ninety (90) days following the deadline
for submission of proposals, or until the effective date of any resulting contract, whichever is later.
2. DEFINITIONS
The following words and terms shall, for all purposes of this Proposal, have the following meanings, unless the
context clearly indicates a different meaning or intent:
“Acceptable Material" means recyclable materials collected by the City, including but not limited to those
materials listed herein under section $.(a) Operation.
“Agreement” means the contract between the successful vendor and the City of Nashua.
“Annual Tonnage” means the tons of Acceptable Waste from the City picked up, hauled and processed each
service year by the successful vendor.
“City” means the City of Nashua, New Hampshire.
“Effective Date” means the date the contract is to begin (Tentatively July 1, 2016).
“Eacility’” means the material recovery facility equipped, owned or leased, operated and maintained by the
vender, including all associated real property, equipment and appurtenances thereto.
“Holiday” means the following annual days, as observed: New Year's Day, Martin Luther King Civil Rights Day,
President's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Veteran’s Day, Thanksgiving
Day and Christmas.
