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How will you keep your kids busy this summer vacation?
County board OKs CIMCO contract
Mon, Feb 11th, 2013
Posted in Government
Posted in Government
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After discussion of instituting a local preference weighting mechanism in the county’s bidding process, the county board voted to award a yearlong ferrous metal recovery to CIMCO Recycling, an Illinois-based company that has a branch in Zumbrota.
Watson Recycling, which has an office in northwestern Rochester, tied CIMCO on grade two metals, during a request for proposals seeking the company bidding to return the highest amount of revenue back to Olmsted County.
Staff then flipped a coin to decide who won the bid. However, CIMCO outbid Watson on grade one, shredded metals, and so won the overall bid, making the coin flip unnecessary.
“It just should have never taken place,” County administrator Richard Devlin said. “I’m sorry that it happened. It was a staff mistake.”
Devlin said that he had only seen one tie on a bid before, and that if it happens in the future, the procedure will be to have the companies rebid. Devlin also stated that the local preference waiting concept will receive administrative review at the county, and noted that the county routinely uses local preference in awarding smaller contracts.
“It seems like the appropriate thing to do would be to rebid it. There were things that were done wrong,” said board chair Jim Bier.
Devlin stated that the county would be losing money in the interim if another bidding process was started anew, and they would stay with the highest bidder in that event.
According to county environmental services director John Helmers, the county has been stockpiling metal, and he warned that if the county does not ship the metal by the end of the month, they will be in violation of their state permit for storage.
“We’re up against our limit,” he said.
Helmers said that the county is in line to make in excess of $125,000 more, or about $341,000 in ferrous metal sales this year as compared to last year. To come to that figure, Helmers stated they estimated that the metal will sell at about $380 per ton and that the county would sell between 1300 and 1400 tons throughout the year.
Board member Matt Flynn expressed concern about changing the rules after the bid had gone out.
The board voted 5-2 to award the year long contract to CIMCO Recycling, with board members Ken Brown and Bier voting in dissent.
Watson Recycling, which has an office in northwestern Rochester, tied CIMCO on grade two metals, during a request for proposals seeking the company bidding to return the highest amount of revenue back to Olmsted County.
Staff then flipped a coin to decide who won the bid. However, CIMCO outbid Watson on grade one, shredded metals, and so won the overall bid, making the coin flip unnecessary.
“It just should have never taken place,” County administrator Richard Devlin said. “I’m sorry that it happened. It was a staff mistake.”
Devlin said that he had only seen one tie on a bid before, and that if it happens in the future, the procedure will be to have the companies rebid. Devlin also stated that the local preference waiting concept will receive administrative review at the county, and noted that the county routinely uses local preference in awarding smaller contracts.
“It seems like the appropriate thing to do would be to rebid it. There were things that were done wrong,” said board chair Jim Bier.
Devlin stated that the county would be losing money in the interim if another bidding process was started anew, and they would stay with the highest bidder in that event.
According to county environmental services director John Helmers, the county has been stockpiling metal, and he warned that if the county does not ship the metal by the end of the month, they will be in violation of their state permit for storage.
“We’re up against our limit,” he said.
Helmers said that the county is in line to make in excess of $125,000 more, or about $341,000 in ferrous metal sales this year as compared to last year. To come to that figure, Helmers stated they estimated that the metal will sell at about $380 per ton and that the county would sell between 1300 and 1400 tons throughout the year.
Board member Matt Flynn expressed concern about changing the rules after the bid had gone out.
The board voted 5-2 to award the year long contract to CIMCO Recycling, with board members Ken Brown and Bier voting in dissent.
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