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<br />City of Arden Hills, Recycling RFP <br />October 2014 <br />Page 19 <br />City of Arden Hills <br />1245 Highway 96 <br />Arden Hills, MN55112 <br /> <br />Proposals will be treated in accordance with Mn. Statutes 13.591, Subdivision 3 (b), Data <br />Practices Act. <br /> <br />Six written, hard copies of the proposal and all attachments shall be submitted. An <br />electronic copy of the proposal must be submitted on a compact disk (or suitable <br />alternative electronic format such as a USB flash/thumb drive) inside the sealed <br />envelope. The proposal file must be in a PDF format. <br /> <br />9.7 Proposal Content <br />Qualified proposals must include the Proposal Checklist Attachment A and items listed on <br />the checklist. <br /> <br />9.8 Evaluation Criteria <br />Arden Hills residents have identified a city-wide goal to be an environmentally sustainable <br />community, and residents have identified various community values that environmental <br />programs such as recycling should incorporate. <br /> <br />The vision, values and goals of the City lead to the following criteria that the City will use <br />to evaluate proposals for recycling services: <br /> <br />Collection Criteria <br />♦ Clean and quiet service delivery. <br />: <br />♦ Low impact on street (size and weight of trucks). <br />♦ Easy for customers to participate. <br />♦ A broad range of accepted recyclables, including organics. <br />♦ Materials to be efficiently recycled (local markets, highest and best use for material). <br />♦ Facilitates increased MUD, commercial, institutional and industrial recycling. <br />♦ Cost-effective service. <br /> <br />Qualifications Criteria <br />♦ How the proposals have been tailored to meet the particular needs of the City of Arden <br />Hills. <br />: <br />♦ Strength of qualifications of the respondents (together with any proposed <br />subcontractors). <br />♦ Comments from the respondents’ reference clients. <br /> <br />Education and Customer Service Criteria <br />♦ Frequent, effective education of residents. <br />: