The Public Work's Department released their latest recommendation regarding the city's recycling processing services on Friday. The Transportation and Public Works Committee will be discussing this issue and making a decision tomorrow--Tuesday, February 17th. You can access the latest public works recommendation at:
http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/council/2004-meetings/20040227/tpw200402 17agenda.asp#TopOfPage February 16, 2004 Dear Mayor Rybak: We are writing in reply to the Public Works Department's third recommendation to negotiate with Waste Management Inc (WMI) Recycle America Alliance (RAA) for the city's recycling processing services. We are once again unsure why staff continues to recommend WMI when it appears that BFI now has the best proposal. Once you eliminate the "fixed-rate" proposals, all three "floating rate" proposals offer similar revenues (within 5%) to the city. As these proposals are tied to indexes and float with the markets, they will remain similar in future years. This time BFI's proposal offers the highest return and the highest floor price protection for your materials. Eureka Recycling's proposal is second. WMI's market rate proposal still offers the lowest revenue to the city and the least amount of floor price protection. Although the staff's evaluation indicates that RAA/WMI's fixed-rate proposals would have returned the most revenue to the city of Minneapolis over the last five years, you must look ahead to the market conditions that are expected in 2004 and beyond to accurately evaluate this proposal. All three proposers provided market predictions, supported by experts, that expect the value of recyclables to rise, especially for newspaper and cardboard. When applying these predictions, it is our estimate that WMI's fixed-rate proposal would return approximately $750,000 less than the other proposals over the next three years. Eureka Recycling is proud to have offered the city of Minneapolis its best proposal throughout this process, as well as full documentation that we have met all the requirements of the RFP (including bonding consistent with the amount required). We still believe that Eureka Recycling is the best partner for Minneapolis; however, we are not writing this letter to convince you of that. We are writing this letter because we feel that you deserve a complete and fair analysis of the "best and final" proposals that were submitted for this contract. We wish you much success with your decision. Susan Hubbard CEO Tim Brownell COO Eureka Recycling 2828 Kennedy Street Minneapolis, MN 55413 CC: Minneapolis City Council Mayor RT Rybak Klara Fabry, Public Works Director Susan Young, Recycling and Solid Waste Director Posted by Dianna Kennedy Longfellow REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
