Landfill solid waste engineering and environmental compliance

The Town of Manchester, located in Hartford County, Connecticut, is soliciting proposals from qualified solid waste engineering and environmental consultants to provide comprehensive landfill, transfer station, and compost facility services. The procurement seeks a contractor to deliver ongoing environmental engineering design, permitting, inspection, monitoring, reporting, and regulatory compliance services primarily for the Sanitation Division, with potential extension to other Department of Public Works divisions. Key deliverables include quarterly groundwater, surface water, and leachate seep monitoring, stormwater reporting, solid waste inspections, and annual capacity estimates. Non-routine tasks may encompass solid waste permitting, design, filling plan development, groundwater and stormwater discharge permitting, leachate seep remediation, erosion control engineering, and emerging contaminant investigations. The evaluation will be based on a points-based system across six criteria: proposal quality (15 points), firm experience (25 points), personnel qualifications (15 points), references (15 points), rates/fees (25 points), and innovation (5 points). The solicitation has a response deadline of June 21, 2024, at 11:00 am, with a mandatory pre-bid meeting scheduled for June 7, 2024, at 9:00 am, and a proposed contract term from October 1, 2024, to June 30, 2026, with options to extend for three additional one-year periods.

The procurement includes a living wage ordinance requiring contractors with service contracts exceeding $25,000 to pay eligible employees either $16.59 per hour with comprehensive health care benefits or $24.59 per hour without. Bidders must complete a Living Wage Certification Form indicating their status as a "Covered Employer" or claiming exemption based on specific criteria such as being a nonprofit, employing fewer than 25 eligible employees, or having an annual contract value less than $25,000. The solicitation does not specify precise award values or budget ranges, but requires comprehensive insurance coverage including workers' compensation, commercial general liability, automobile liability, and potential additional coverages like professional liability and environmental liability. While the RFP excludes air engineering and landfill gas system operations from the initial scope, the Town reserves the right to request these services from the selected consultant on an on-call basis. The procurement allows for flexible, comprehensive environmental engineering support, with the Town reserving the right to award the contract to the most advantageous proposal, not necessarily the lowest cost, and potentially negotiate with selected vendors.