The County receives clean wood wastes for recycling at their facility located at 3240 Berlin Drive, La Crosse, WI 54601. The County contracts grinding services to a third party to produce an end product suitable for mixing and combustion at the Xcel Energy French Island Generating Plant (“Xcel”). The County contracts loading services to a third party for loading wood chip loads. The County is seeking a hauling provider that meetings the following requirements: 1. Has or has the capability to obtain a fuel agreement with Xcel Energy Corporation and meet Xcel’s insurance requirements. 2. Coordinate wood chip deliveries with Xcel under Xcel’s fuel division and French Island Plant. 3. Responsible for providing all equipment and labor necessary to transport the material from the County facility to Xcel. a. Including a tractor trailer with the capacity to haul a minimum of Twenty (20) tons of wood chips. b. Has a spilt rear door for facilitating unloading woods chips on tipping ramp at Xcel. c. Trailer must have landing gear that is no farther than 35 feet from the rear end of the trailer. 4. Will be responsible for transporting the woods chips to the Xcel facility, scaling the wood chips at the Xcel scale to obtain the load weights, announcing at the scale that the wood chips are from the La Crosse County facility and then unloading the wood chips at Xcel in compliance with Xcel’s policies. 5. Invoicing must be provided to the County within thirty (30) days of service.
