Moving and Storage Services

The City of Columbus Department of Development Housing Division, Lead Safe Columbus Program, (hereinafter “City”) is seeking services from a moving and storage company for tenants while they are being temporarily housed in extended-stay hotels so that the lead hazard control activities and healthy home repairs are addressed. The services would include providing boxes and packing material, packing and unpacking services when applicable, and pick-up and delivery of selected items to and from the company’s secured storage facility. The City seeks to hire one (1) moving and storage company for the services described herein. The Contract period shall run from the date of approval order to December 31, 2025, with an option to renew each year until December 31, 2028. A Contract review will be conducted by each October, by both the City and the Contractor to determine if the Contract shall be renewed. The contract is meant to do the following: 1) set the price that each selected Contractor will charge for the required moving and storage services, 2) each selected Contractor will agree to direct bill the City once all requested moving and storage services have been completed, 3) the City cannot guarantee that a specific number of moving and storage request or a specific dollar amount will be spent and/or spent with any selected vendor during the contract period, and 4) any time a moving and storage service request is submitted, if the vendor is unavailable on the date requested, either the service date will be changed or another vendor will be contacted. The typical LSC client (hereinafter “client”) required amount of storage services would be on average approximately 12 to 14 days. Naturally, there will be clients that will fall outside of those norms. The typical items to be packed and stored are electronics or other items of value that cannot be taken with them at the time of temporary relocation.