Garbage, Recycling, and Compost for UW-Eau Claire, UW-River Falls, and UW-Stout

The University of Wisconsin System Administration Purchasing Services is seeking a consolidated waste management services contract for three campuses: UW-Eau Claire, UW-River Falls, and UW-Stout. The procurement solicits comprehensive trash, recycling, and compost collection services across various campus locations, including academic, administrative, residential, and university center sites. Vendors must provide a range of container sizes from 65-gallon carts to 40-yard dumpsters, with specific pickup schedules differentiated between academic year and summer periods. Qualified bidders must have a minimum of three years of experience in waste hauling services and be licensed in Wisconsin. Key deliverables include monthly weight reporting using mechanically calibrated scales, participation in the annual RecycleMania competition with weekly reporting, and quarterly performance meetings with campus administrators. The solicitation was issued on December 20, 2019, with written questions due by January 10, 2020, and bids due on January 31, 2020, at 2:00 p.m. CST/CDT. Optional pre-bid walk-throughs were scheduled for January 6, 2020, at each campus location, with the contract term set for three years and potential automatic renewal for two additional one-year terms.

The University encourages participation from certified Minority Business Enterprises (MBE), Woman-Owned Businesses (WBE), Disabled Veteran-Owned Businesses (DVB), and Veteran-Owned Businesses (VB), with potential price preferences of up to 5 percent above the lowest qualified bid for certified Disabled Veteran-Owned Businesses. Vendors may bid on one, two, or all three campuses and can exclude specific waste streams from their proposals. The University reserves the right to make multiple awards by school or commodity and to consolidate vendors where feasible. Contractors must maintain comprehensive insurance coverage of at least one million dollars per occurrence and provide equipment maintenance and quarterly cleaning of compost containers. While no specific award value or budget range was explicitly stated, the solicitation indicates pricing must be submitted on an itemized bid list with unit prices remaining firm for the initial three-year contract term. The contract will be available for use by all State of Wisconsin agencies, potentially expanding the scope and value of the procurement beyond the initial three campuses.