The City may award multiple contracts for towing services. The current number of vehicles impounded each year is approximately two thousand four hundred fifty (2,450) and the number of vehicles stored is approximately one thousand four hundred (1,400). The towing service will be required to impound, store, remove vehicles from a traffic collision, clean-up as required, attend to disabled vehicles, have an evidence hold area for the vehicles and generally provide towing and storage service on a twenty-four (24) hour, seven (7) days a week, three hundred sixty-five (365) days a year. Towing services will also include light, medium, and heavy-duty City vehicles and equipment on an as needed basis for the City of Costa Mesa. It shall be the responsibility of the Proposer to respond immediately and promptly provide towing services for vehicles to be taken into custody, when such service is called for by the Police Department. The towing services to be performed by the Proposer shall include, but are not limited to, towing services for vehicles involved in accidents or disabled by other causes, impeding the flow of traffic, impound for evidence, abandoned in public places or on private property, and for any other reason at the request of the City of Costa Mesa Police Department.
