Title
Resolution Authorizing a Contract with Premier Truck Sales & Rental, Inc. for the Rental of Eight Rear Load Refuse Trucks ($117,200.00)
Memorandum
Please find attached for your consideration a resolution that authorizes a contract with Premier Truck Sales & Rental, Inc. for the rental of eight rear load refuse trucks for use in the City’s fall yard waste collection.
In the fall, the volume of yard waste drastically increases and will overwhelm the City’s fleet of three side load compost trucks. These side load truck have smaller “hoppers” designed for the one to two containers per stop found during normal yard waste collection.
The hopper is the area of the truck where the containers/bag are dumped before being packed into the truck. The smaller the hopper, the sooner the operator has to “pack” the truck. When the truck is packing, yard waste cannot be dumped into it.
The rear load trucks we are renting have much larger hoppers and require the operator to pack the truck less often. These trucks are better suited for the multiple bags and containers we see in the fall months. In addition to using trucks with the larger hoppers, the increase in the volume of yard waste requires us to more than double the number of trucks sent out each day.
The Fleet and Facilities Unit of the Public Services Area solicited bids for the truck rentals. Three requests were sent out but only one vendor was able to supply all eight trucks during the period we need them.
BIDDER COST TOTAL
Premier Truck Sales & Rental, Inc. $11,880.00 per Truck (8) $95,040.00
Rantoul Truck Center, LLC No Bid / No Trucks Available
Big Truck Rental, LLC No Bid / No Trucks Available
Funds were budgeted and are available in the FY13 operations & maintenance budget of the Solid Waste Enterprise Fund.
Included in this resolution is a contingency of $22,160.00 for two additional weeks of rental based on a...
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