Specifications include, but are not limited to: The Northeast Maryland Waste Disposal Authority (“Authority”) requests technical and cost proposals from qualified vendors (“Proposers”) for the following elements of electronics material collection and reuse/recycling services. These services will be available to the Authority’s Member Jurisdictions. Member Jurisdictions include Anne Arundel County, Baltimore City, Baltimore County, Carroll County, Frederick County, Harford County, Howard County and Montgomery County. The term of the Master Service Agreement (defined below) will be July 1, 2023 through June 30, 2028. However, the date on which service begins (“Operations Date”) may be different for each Member Jurisdiction, as set forth in a separate Confirmation between the Member Jurisdiction and the Contractor. Provide acceptable Collection Containers and Large Storage Containers at current or future locations designated by the Member Jurisdictions (See Appendix A for a list of Current Designated Collection Sites). Transport Acceptable Material to an offsite Reuse/Recycling Facility. The Reuse/Recycling Facility will act as the Contractor’s main processing site for all Acceptable Material to be reused/recycled under the Master Service Agreement, as set forth in Appendix H. The Master Service Agreement will act as the primary contract between the Authority and the Contractor, to ensure electronic materials collection and reuse/recycling services throughout the length of the contract. Acceptable Material is as follows: Computer monitors, televisions (“TVs”), central processing units, computer mouses, keyboards, landline or cell phones, answering machines, printers, power supplies, portable computers (laptops and tablets), smart device with speakers (e.g. Alexa, Google Assistant, Siri, Echo Dot, etc., generally connected to other devices or networks via different wireless protocols such as Bluetooth, Zigbee, NFC, Wi-Fi, LiFi, 5G, etc., that can operate to some extent interactively and autonomously), hard drives, servers, scanners, copiers, fax machines, cables, cords and communication wire (e.g. copper wire, phone wire, coaxial cable, computer wire and fiber optic cable), miscellaneous circuit boards, chips, and cards, typewriters, calculators, clocks, alarm clocks, radios, audio equipment, stereos, cameras, video cameras, music playing devices such as record players, cassette players, recorders or MP3 players, headphones and wireless technology such as Bluetooth, GPS, electronic reading devices, radar detectors, VCR/DVR/DVD or Blu-ray players, computer discs and DVDs/CDs/Blu-ray discs, VHS/cassette tapes, smart light controllers, smart garage controllers, electronic ‘smartwatches’ and activity/fitness trackers such as wristbands or chips (e.g., a wearable or implanted computing device that offers functionality and capabilities similar to those of a smartphone. These devices, either on their own or when paired with a smartphone, provide features like connecting to the internet, running mobile apps, making calls, messaging via text or video, checking caller ID, accessing stock and weather updates, providing fitness monitoring capabilities, offering GPS coordinates and location directions), video game consoles and other electronic toys and games, holiday string lights, electronic power generators like solar panel electronic accessories and light fixtures, projectors, digital or older manual model home thermostats, home security systems, surveillance cameras, diagnostic/sensing/control equipment, cable/satellite boxes and devices, remotes, drones, USB thumb drives/flash drives, electronic gift cards/debit cards/credit cards and other computer or electronic related accessories collected from the Designated Collection Sites. The Authority intends to enter into one or more Master Service Agreements with the Proposer(s) that submit the proposals deemed by the Authority and the Evaluation Committee to represent the best value to the Authority and its Member Jurisdictions. The Authority may enter into Master Service Agreements that use different payment scenarios as described in Appendix E, the required cost proposal format. The form of the Master Service Agreement is attached to this RFP as Appendix H. Note that, as described in the Master Service Agreement, each Member Jurisdiction will issue its own Confirmation for the services to be provided to that Member Jurisdiction in accord with the Master Service Agreement. Award of a Master Service Agreement to a Proposer does not guarantee the Contractor any work under the Agreement. Only the execution of a Confirmation by a Member Jurisdiction creates a contract under which Acceptable Material will be sent to an individual Contractor.
