Request for Expressions of Interest for Demolition, Design, Build, Operation and Maintenance of a New Mass-Burn Waste to Energy Facility

The Solid Waste Authority of Palm Beach County is requesting Letters of Interest from firms capable of executing a comprehensive Demolition, Design, Build, Operate and Maintain (DDBOM) project, with LOIs due November 18, 2026 at 2:00 p.m. EST. The Authority intends to contract with a single prime entity responsible for demolition of the existing Palm Beach Renewable Energy Facility No. 1 (PBREF 1), design, procurement, construction, start-up, testing, and long-term operation and maintenance of a new mass-burn waste-to-energy facility. This is an EPC-type integrated project delivery structure.

The scope encompasses full-service delivery from deconstruction through multi-decade facility operations. Respondents must demonstrate substantial experience in large-scale mass-burn WTE facilities, large power-generating facilities, or comparable heavy industrial facilities. The Authority is filtering for firms with demonstrated capability across the full project lifecycle—engineering, procurement, construction management, and operational management—rather than single-discipline contractors.

No pre-bid conference or site visit is documented in the available records. The solicitation does not specify estimated contract value, budget, funding sources, incumbent information, or evaluation criteria weightings in the publicly available documentation. Respondent firms are required to register through an external electronic bidding service to access complete solicitation documents.

This procurement targets design-build-operate-maintain capability as the primary selection criterion. The scale and complexity of WTE facility projects substantially narrows the qualified respondent pool to firms with integrated EPC and operations experience in energy-from-waste or similar large industrial infrastructure.