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File #: 17-1658    Version: 2 Name: 11/9/17 - GGSG Change Orders for MRF Clean-Up
Type: Resolution Status: Passed
File created: 11/9/2017 In control: City Council
On agenda: 11/9/2017 Final action: 11/9/2017
Enactment date: 11/9/2017 Enactment #: R-17-411
Title: Resolution to Ratify Emergency Change Request and Approve Change Order to Purchase Order, and Appropriate Funds, for Waste Removal and Clean Up at Material Recovery Facility (MRF) with Global Green Services Group, LLC (GGSC) ($23,900.00) (8 Votes Required)
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Resolution to Ratify Emergency Change Request and Approve Change Order to Purchase Order, and Appropriate Funds, for Waste Removal and Clean Up at Material Recovery Facility (MRF) with Global Green Services Group, LLC (GGSC) ($23,900.00) (8 Votes Required)
Memorandum
The attached resolution ratifies an emergency addition to the current services purchase order with Global Green Services Group, LLC (GGSC) for unanticipated work methods needed to complete the waste removal and clean-up at the Ann Arbor Material Recovery Facility (MRF), approves a change order to this purchase order for the excess work needed for the base work, and appropriates funds from the Solid Waste Fund fund balance for these changes.

On September 18, 2017, City Council approved Resolution R-17-358 ratifying an emergency purchase order with Global Green Services Group, LLC (GGSC) for the waste removal and clean-up at the Ann Arbor Material Recovery Facility (MRF). This was necessary to eliminate the final unmitigated potential cause of the August 8, 2017 fire incident at the MRF, possible spontaneous combustion of accumulated waste material and dust within the facility. GGSG commenced their work on Saturday, September 23, 2017 and was substantially completed on Monday, October 2, 2017 allowing the City's interim operations contract operator at the MRF, Recycle Ann Arbor (RAA), to once again begin transloading operations at the facility.

However, the old metals sorting bin could not be satisfactorily cleaned using the methods performed under the scope of work provided by GGSG. This particular sorting bin is heavily impacted by an accumulation of metal wire woven throughout a fenced structure, which also contains mixed combustible waste entangled within the metal wire, thus presenting a remaining potential fire hazard. Eliminating this last remaining debris requires cutting out the fence material and removing the material, at a cost of $3,200.00. As provided in City Code Sectio...

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