About this opportunity
AI summaryThe City of Sammamish seeks proposals for solid waste collection services, covering residential and commercial garbage, recyclables, and organics collection. The selected contractor will also handle the processing and marketing of collected recyclables and organics, proposing their own or subcontracted facilities to manage the material. The contract will run for a term of ten and a half years. Eligibility is limited to onshore, United States-based organizations. All prospective proposers must submit questions no later than December 11, 2026.
Buyer and opportunity details
- Client
- City of Sammamish
Scope of work
- Garbage, recyclables, and organics collection services
- Provision of containers and carts, including cart delivery and recycling unwanted personal cans
- Weekly organics collection services embedded with single-family garbage collection
- Curbside recyclables collection and processing
- Annual on-call yard debris collection for single-family residential compostable customers
- Collection of unflocked, undecorated natural holiday trees between December 26 and January 31
- Collection of properly prepared compostable storm debris following city-designated storm events
- Food scraps starter kit delivery within seven days of request
Minimum qualifications
- Proposer must be duly organized and validly existing as a corporation or partnership in good standing
- Principal existing under and by virtue of the laws of the State of Washington and authorized to do business in the State of Washington
- Contractor shall use properly permitted material processing facilities
Documents to include with your response
- Form 1: Cover Sheet and General Information
- Documentation showing Proposer is duly organized and validly existing as a corporation or partnership in good standing
- Form 2: Contractor’s Proposal Deposit Surety Bond in penal sum of $15,000
- Form 3: Identification of Performance Security
- Form 4: Certification of Proposal - Declaration and Understanding
- Copy of partnership agreement (if Proposer is a partnership) or copies of corporate documents (if corporation)
- Rate sheet / Proposal Price Form
Key dates
- Contract term start
- January 1, 2029
- Contract term end
- June 30, 2039
- Annual Rate Adjustment Statement due
- On or before October 1st each year
- Annual holiday tree collection period
- December 26 and January 31 each year
How to submit
- Instructions
- Proposal will remain subject to acceptance until 180 days following Proposal submittal; selected Proposer must sign and submit the Contract with appropriate performance security and proof of insurance within five (5) days.
Contract details
- Term
- January 1, 2029 – June 30, 2039
- Place of performance
- City of Sammamish, Washington
- Insurance and bonding
- Proof of insurance acceptable to Sammamish, contractor bonds (performance and payment bonds), and proposal deposit surety bond in penal sum of $15,000.