Request for Proposals for Textile Collection and Reuse/Recycling Services

The Northeast Maryland Waste Disposal Authority (“Authority”) is a multi-county agency created by the State of Maryland to assist participating member jurisdictions (“Member Jurisdictions” or “Members”) with recycling and waste management systems. Members include Baltimore City and Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Carroll, Frederick, Harford, Howard, and Montgomery Counties.The Authority’s Members continue to pursue greater diversion of material from disposal. The Authority is seeking interest in a service for textile reuse/recycling by collecting from Member drop-off facilities, Member special events, and/or through curbside residential collection service within the Member Jurisdiction footprint. The Authority requests technical and price proposals from qualified Contractors (“Proposers”) for the following elements of Textile collection: acceptance, loading/unloading, transportation, processing, marketing, recycling or reuse, residual disposal, textile collection containers (and other equipment as needed), and any other incidental costs. This service will be provided to one or more of the Authority’s Member Jurisdictions. The term of the Master Service Agreement (“Agreement”) (defined below) will be July 1, 2027, through June 30, 2032. However, the date on which service begins (“Operations Date”) may be different for each Member Jurisdiction.The technical and price proposal must be submitted on or before 4:00 p.m. local time on Wednesday, December 23, 2026 (“Proposal Closing Date”).
Additional Instructions: All contacts relative to this solicitation, as well as questions concerning these instructions shall be directed to the Authority in writing, by email at contact@example.gov on or before 4:00pm (local time) on Friday, November 20, 2026 (the “Question Submittal Date”). The subject line for such communications should be “RFP for Textile Collection and Reuse/Recycling Services.”