Opening of Proposals - Waste Management & Recycling Services for VPA - Michiana Recycling and Disposal Services

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City of South Bend Public Works November 21, 2016 Scope of work/business information 1. History of firm; 41h generation, have offered recycling service to businesses since 1971, and came into the Indiana market over 25 years ago. 2. # of customers in business; experienced tremendous growth in the last 10 years and now services thousands upon thousands of customers throughout Northern Indiana and Southwest Michigan. 3. Size of firm; over 80 employees including customer service, drivers, mechanics, line sorters, sales support and accounting staff. 4. List of fleet, trucks; more than 50 trucks in our fleet which encompass, Roll -off, Frontload Commercial, Rear load and Side load Residential, Commercial and Residential container delivery and Material Recovery Facility trucks. In addition to our fleet, we have bobcats, maintenance vehicles, excavators and wheeled loaders. 5. Infrastructure; as previously stated, we have experienced unprecedented growth this last decade. We have expanded our corporate office multiple times to accommodate additional customer service, sales support, and mechanics and accounting positions that was added to our company. Expanded our parking area, added a 2n1 scale, purchased a historical amount of new containers (frontload commercial and roll -off industrial) and added to our fleet of route trucks in addition to replacing old trucks. Above all, we have expanded our Material Recovery Facility three times, with the last being our largest to date. The Material Recovery Facility is where ALL our trucks dump and we sort the recyclables from the waste stream. Once the truck dumps, the waste is fed on a conveyor line and we sort plastics, metals, cardboard, paper, wood etc. With this years completed expansion, we now have over 1100 linear feet of conveyor lines, more than tripled our sorting stations for recyclables, added eddy currants, a magnet, switch backs and shutes. All of which allow us to provide even more recycling opportunities to our customers. With our unique ONE STOP — ONE TRUCK— ONE CONTAINER commingled system we are increasing your recycling opportunities, reducing exhaust emissions in our communities and we have reduced fuel consumption and truck traffic by HALF vs. the old two truck method. Seeing our Material Recycling Facility speaks volumes, please let me know if you would like to set up a day and time to come get a tour, I would be more than happy to provide you with one. 6. Location of head office and any branches; Michiana Recycling and Disposal is a locally owned and operated business located in Niles Michigan.