1166232_ - Shady Grove Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) Processing Facility and Transfer Station

Full Title: Shady Grove Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) Processing Facility and Transfer Station Adaptation

Montgomery County, Maryland (“County”) is considering a change to its existing municipal solid waste (MSW) management system to strategically focus on enhanced waste diversion, the recovery of resources such as recyclable materials, and/or the recovery of energy from its MSW stream by adapting the Shady Grove Processing Facility and Transfer Station (“Transfer Station,” Derwood, MD Facility) and the County’s Dickerson, MD facilities while minimizing the quantity of residual waste materials which require disposal by conventional methods.  Relevant information concerning the County’s MSW management system including tonnages for various waste stream components, descriptions of the waste mass balance through the MSW system, as well as descriptions of the various solid waste management related facilities, can be found in documents posted here. 

As part of this effort, the County is issuing this Request for Expressions of Interest (REOI) to invite interested and capable parties to submit information describing their experience and qualifications to provide proven, comparably scaled, and commercially operating technologies that are capable of processing and managing non-hazardous MSW and source-separated organic waste materials, in anticipation of using those capabilities to meet specific County MSW management goals and objectives including necessary retrofit and/or adaptation of existing County facilities. 

The intent of this REOI is to identify interested parties that have the capability to design, build, and/or operate MSW processing systems that can be retrofitted and/or adapted at existing County facilities.  During any transition periods from existing solid waste management operations to the new processing systems, the existing County MSW operations currently in-place will need to be maintained. 

This REOI is the first of a two-step procurement process intended to establish a short-list of firms eligible to receive a subsequent Request for Proposal (RFP).  Issuance of this REOI does not constitute a commitment, implied or otherwise, and the County will not be responsible for any costs incurred by Respondents to prepare and submit their response. 

Organizations interested in providing described operations, technologies, services, or facilities are invited to respond.  Failure to provide all requested items may be sufficient cause for non-acceptance of the response. Organizations that do not respond to this REOI are ineligible to respond to any future pending RFP.