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PROPOSED CONTRACT AMENDMENT
Department(s): Department of Landscape Maintenance
Vendor: Allied Waste Transportation, Inc., Crestwood, Illinois
Request: Authorization for the Forest Preserves of Cook County (the "Forest Preserves") to increase and amend contract
Good(s) or Service(s): Refuse Disposal for (SouthEast) Region 4: Thorn Creek Division at 440 Thornton-Lansing Rd. in Lansing, Illinois
Original Contract Period: 9/1/2021 - 8/31/2024; with two (2) one-year optional extensions
Proposed Contract Period Extension: N/A
Total Current Contract Amount Authority: $25,300.00
Original Approval: 7/27/2021, $23,000.00
Previous Increase(s): 9/6/2022, $2,300.00, Administrative Increase
This Increase Requested: $75,000.00
Estimated Fiscal Impact: FY 2022 $25,000.00, FY 2023 $25,000.00, FY 2024 $25,000.00
Accounts: Refuse Disposal 29250.520075
Contract Number(s): #74000009806 issued under RFP #21-52-104 (R)
Concurrences:
The Chief Financial Officer has approved this item. Final contract amendment is subject to legal review and approval.
The contract-specific Minority- and Women-Owned Business Enterprise goal for this contract was set to zero.
District(s): 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17
Summary: The Forest Preserves of Cook County went out for solicitation multiple times in 2021 to secure four contracts for its Refuse and Recycling Disposal program which covers four (4) Landscape Maintenance Regions. These Regions are as follows: Southwest Region 1 consisting of Calumet, Tinley Creek, and Palos Divisions; Central Region 2 consisting of Salt Creek and Indian Boundary Divisions; Northwest Region 3 consisting of Northwest and North Branch Divisions; and Southeast Region 4 consisting of Thorn Creek Division. After multiple attempts, the Forest Preserve District was not able to secure a solicitation for Region 3. Allied Waste Transportation, who was the vendor awarded the Region 4 contract also had a refuse facility in the Region 3 ...
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