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• Vendor to handle all Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) that comes to the WRT facility, whether or not it is the vendor's preferred composition of waste. • Redundancy in operation, or storage options, such that chaste is always accepted. • A maximum fee from the County to the vendor of $100r'ton based on a 20-year operations contract to include tip fees and hauling of any residual, as well as items a_vendor prefers to exclude from its process. • Facility to be transferred to County ownership after 20 years. • ®perations are intended to remain with the private sector for the life of the facility. • Demonstration of experience of vendor's team to handle all permitting issues in a timely fashion. • East I-Iawai`i waste stream is the primary feedstock. • County guarantees a minimum of $75 tons/week (an average of 125 tons/day). • if land other than Government-owned is desired, cost of acquisition, roads and utilities to be borne by the vendor. • If land suggested by County between existing South Hilo landfill and Hilo Transfer Station is desired, County will facilitate acquisition, roads and utilities to vendor's fence line. • Vendor needs to visit Hawaii County operations and must demonstrate understanding of unique issues before submitting proposal. • Vendor needs to demonstrate end markets and a firm price commitment (in the farm of a letter of commitment) by a purchaser for the facility's primary product where those revenues exceed 20% of the projected product revenue. • A performance bond with a minimum of $5 million to cover County identified damages due to vendor defaults. • A bid bond of $50,000. • Diversion from landfills, exclusive of County recycling programs, shall be at a minimum rate of 75%; and WHEREAS, the timeline for implementing and processing the RFP will be as follows: • The RF'P will be completed and published island-wade, statewide, and posted on appropriate industry related websites by ®ctober 31, 2004. • Vendors will have three (3) months to prepare proposals and no proposals will be accepted after January 31, 2005. • The RFP evaluation committee, which shall be composed pursuant to Resolution No. 238-02, will recommend at least one but no more than two vendors tai the County Council by April 30, 2005. • The RFP evaluation committee's recommendation(s) shall be discussed in Executive Session by the County Council and a contrast with the selected WRT vendor will be negotiated and the contract execution date shall be no later than July 31, 2005; and WHEREAS, in tandem with the procurement of a WRT, they County will be proceeding with the actions delineated below: • [ssue an Invitation for Bids (IFB) for construction of roads, utilities, community recycling and recycling processing areas in the vicinity of the present :Hilo Transfer Station. • Issue Requests for Proposals and/or Invitation for Bids i'or: 1. Bottle bill implementation. 2. Recycling at transfer stations island-wide based on 5-year transfer station enhancement plan. 3. Greenwaste collections at selected transfer stations. 4. White and bulky goods pickup at selected transfer stations. 5. Diversion of reusable items. ti. Diversion of construction and demolition debris. ` 7. Develop and implement a community process to inform and educate the community about various WRTs.