Material Recovery Facility
- Background
- Request for Proposals (RFP)
- RFP Tentative Schedule
- RFP and Related Documents
- Material Recovery Facility Final Programming Report
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Background
In October 2008, the City of Austin implemented Single Stream Recycling collection. Participation is voluntary and is available to all residential and commercial customers that have Pay-As-You-Throw garbage service. Currently, the Single Stream Recycling Program has 177,170 residential accounts and 543 commercial accounts. City employees use city-owned equipment to collect the recyclables. Customers use city-provided 96 gallon carts for both residential and commercial accounts. In Fiscal Year ’09-‘10 the City projects that approximately 52,000 tons of recyclables will be collected. Approximately 55% of this tonnage is mixed paper and the remaining 35% is containers (plastic, steel cans, aluminum, and glass) and 10% residuals.
Request for Proposals (RFP)
The City of Austin Solid Waste Services Department (SWS) is seeking proposals from qualified proponents interested in providing Recycling Processing Services for its Single Stream Recycling Program. The successful candidate will be responsible for receiving, sorting, processing, storing and sale of recyclable materials collected from its curbside and office recycling programs. This project is now accepting proposal submissions.
Please click the following link and follow the instructions below to view the details of the RFP solicitation for the Material Recovery Facility (MRF): City of Austin Vendor Self Service System
- Click on the "Public Access" button
- Click on the “Business Opportunities” link
- Click on the “Search for Solicitations” link
- Type “RFP-1500-RDR0005-1” in the number field and hit enter
- Click on the link that appears
- If you want to download actual RFP documents, click on the “attachments” button
- Select the documents you want and click “Download Attachment.”
For more information, read the RFP and related documents.
E-mail the Material Recovery Facility Project Team your comments or questions.
RFP Tentative Schedule
2009
- November 16: Advertise RFP
- November 30: Deadline to submit questions
- December 4: Pre-proposal meeting, City Hall Council Chambers, 10:00 a.m.
2010
- February 9: Proposals due; 11:30 a.m.
- May: Short listed presentations to Council
- June: Council consideration – negotiation only
- August: Council consideration – contract execution
If you missed the pre-proposal meeting, click here or view it below.
RFP and Related Documents
- RFP (No. RDR0005)
(PDF, 2.16 MB) - RFP Attachment F (PDF, 1.36 MB)
- RFP Attachment G (PDF, 422 KB)
- RFP Attachment H (PDF, 471 KB)
- RFP Addendum #1 (PDF, 25 KB)
- RFP Addendum #2 (PDF, 54 KB)
- RFP Addendum #3 (PDF, 85 KB)
- RFP Addendum #4 (PDF, 104 KB)
- RFP Addendum #5 (PDF, 23 KB)
- Dec. 4, 2009 Pre-proposal Meeting Sign-in Sheet (PDF, 2.64 MB)
- Dec. 4, 2009 Pre-proposal Meeting Questions and Answers (PDF, 64 KB)
- MRF RFP Pre-Proposal Presentation (Dec. 7, 2009) (PDF, 75 KB)
- MRF RFP Presentation - DRAFT (Oct. 12, 2009) (PDF, 96 KB)
- Austin Public Private Partnership Analysis Final Report (Sept. 14, 2009) (PDF, 331 KB)
- Austin Public Private Partnership Analysis Appendices (Sept. 14, 2009) (PDF, 6.31 MB)
- Solid Waste
Advisory Commission (SWAC) Presentation (Sept. 9, 2009) (PDF, 755 KB)
