The City Schools Department of Logistics (“Department”) will engage an Entity with trash and recycling (“waste”) management experience to provide school-wide and administrative buildings’ solid waste collection and disposal services (“Services”) at various facilities (“Facilities”) located throughout Baltimore City, as well as one (1) collection point in Baltimore County, State of Maryland. Appendix K, Service Facility Locations and Schedule contains a list of the Department’s Facility locations for trash and recycling services, the address of each Facility, the number of containers currently at each Facility, frequency of Service for each Facility, and any special notes about the Facility. The Department reserves the right, at any time (including after an award hereunder), to either add or remove facilities and/or to increase or decrease responsibilities under an awarded contract. 3.2 The Department is responsible for managing the daily collection of trash and recyclables from approximately 166 sites (schools and administrative office buildings). Given the quantity of sites and criticality of providing timely, scheduled services without disruption, it is imperative for the Department to secure a waste management collector with immediate access to a reliable fleet of collection vehicles, staff, technology in order to provide both trash and recycling hauling collections and disposal services to meet the specified RFP requirements. 3.3 The Entity shall perform trash and recycling hauling services from properties identified and in accordance with Appendix K Service Facility Locations and Schedule. The Entity shall be responsible for the safety of its workers, the public, and damage to the building, equipment and dumpsters serviced by the Entity. City Schools shall pay for damage to containers caused by fires and vandalism. Entity shall pay for damage to containers caused by Entity trucks, such as damage to buildings, containers, container lids, doors and forklift sleeves.
