Placement: Consent Agenda
Action Requested: Motion / Vote
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Award Contract #20230050 for Bio-Solids (Dewatered Sludge) Hauling Services.
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Submitted By: Robyn Holder, CPPB, Procurement Management Division (PMD).
Strategic Plan Link: The City's Goal of high-quality infrastructure and facilities.
Summary Brief (Agreements/Contracts only)
1. Prepared by: Robyn Holder, CPPB (PMD).
2. Parties: City of Port St. Lucie and Merrell Bros., Inc.
3. Purpose: To provide hauling services for the dewatered sludge to approved disposal sites.
4. New/Renewal/Modified: New.
5. Duration: 2-years with the option for 3 additional 1-year renewal terms.
6. Benefits to Port St. Lucie: To contract with a bio-solids hauling firm to remove all dewatered sludge from Westport & Glades Wastewater Treatment Facilities.
7. Cost to Port St. Lucie (Annual and Potential): The cost per wet ton is $66.14. The estimated cost to haul approximately 20,000 wet-tons per year is $1,322,800.00. Future expenditures will be appropriated in each year's approved budget and based on actual quantities hauled.
Presentation Information: N/A.
Staff Recommendation: Move that the Council award Contract #20230050 for Bio-Solids (Dewatered Sludge) Hauling Services with Merrell Bros., Inc.
Alternate Recommendations:
1. Move that the Council amend the recommendation and award Contract #20230050.
2. Move that the Council not approve Contract #20230050 and provide staff with direction.
Background: Bio-solids must be removed from wastewater facilities for further treatment to ensure public and environmental health. Presently, the existing bio-solids disposal practices are through a centrifuge dewatering unit operated at both wastewater treatment facilities, and then hauled offsite for further treatment. Legislative and engineering efforts are underway to eliminate or reduce the amounts of nutrients in bio-solids that may have the potential to reach the Florida Everglades, its tributaries, and the India...
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