📋 Tender Overview
Scope : Solid Waste Collection Vehicles
PROJECT DESCRIPTION/JUSTIFICATION : This annual project provides for the replacement of eleven (11) solid waste collection vehicles from Fiscal Year 2022 through Fiscal Year 2027. The truck replacement will be in Fiscal Year 2022 (#3415 and #3408 two side loaders); in Fiscal Year 2023 (#3409 and #3416 two side loaders, one automated and one semi-automated); in Fiscal Year 2024 (#3401 and #3405 two rear loaders); in Fiscal Year 2025 (#3402 and #3410 one automated side loader and one grappler); in Fiscal Year 2026 ( #3403 and #3404 two rear loaders) and in Fiscal Year 2027 (#3407 one rear loader). The different styles of trucks will be used to collect customers garbage, bulky items, recyclables, and yard waste and/or food scraps manually and/or by using a hydraulic lifting system for tipper carts. Beginning fiscal year 2021, the City will phase in one automated truck. Phasing in automated collection trucks will help improve collection efficiency, improve workers' safety and neighborhood aesthetics through reduced litter associated with the use of garbage bags. These trucks will be eight to ten years old by their proposed replacement years.
