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Bonner County opens bids for scrap metal, wood grinding and household hazardous waste; remand to staff proposed
Summary
Bonner County officials opened and recorded bids for scrap metal removal, wood grinding and household hazardous waste disposal on Sept. 23 and moved to send the submissions to Solid Waste staff for analysis and recommendation; the roll-call vote result is not recorded in the transcript.
Bonner County opened bids for three solid-waste services — scrap metal removal, wood grinding and household hazardous waste disposal — at a Sept. 23 bid opening, and a commissioner moved to remand the submissions to the county’s Solid Waste staff for review and recommendation.
“We're gonna be opening bids for scrap metal, wood grinding, and household hazardous waste,” Solid Waste staff said at the start of the bid opening, which recorded multiple sealed submissions and fee schedules.
Why it matters: those contracts determine where the county sends recyclable metal and hazardous household materials and set per-ton and per-item fees that affect Solid Waste operations and the county’s contractor payments.
The bid opening recorded the following primary offers and sample fees. For scrap metal, Commissioner Corn read Pacific Steel and Recycling’s submission, which the commissioner cited as offering Bonner County $101 per ton for bailing metal piles at Colburn and Idaho Hill and a third location redacted in the transcript. For wood grinding, the county received at least two bids: Wood Waste Solutions LLC bid $49.50 per ton for a contract term listed as Oct. 1, 2025, through Sept. 30, 2026; Cannon Hill Industries bid $70 per green ton to grind and remove wood and debris at listed transfer stations and a road-and-bridge shop.
Household hazardous waste (HHW) bids included multiple detailed fee schedules. One bidder, Advanced Chemical Transport LLC, submitted itemized unit fees (examples read aloud included acids at $280, toxics at $225, flammable paint at $230, mercury at $450) and listed transportation and labor charges including a transportation stop fee of $450, labor supervisor $80 per hour, labor technician $60 per hour, a $350 mobilization fee and an energy-and-insurance surcharge of 19 percent. Raymar/Braemar Environmental Services (transcript contains both spellings) listed labor technician unit costs and overtime (examples read: $48.50 for first eight hours, overtime $72.50) and a minimum transport charge for 10 drums at $500. Clean Harbors (appearing in the file as “Clean Harbors”) and Clean Earth also submitted schedules; Clean Earth’s filing as read included a $2,500 mobilization fee, a $25 manifest administration fee and various minimum invoice and handling charges.
During the meeting Commissioner Corn moved to remand the bids "for scrap metal removal, household hazardous waste disposal, and wood grinding over to solid waste for analysis and recommendation." The motion was made on the record and a roll call was requested; the transcript does not record who seconded the motion or the roll-call vote tally or final outcome.
Solid Waste staff said they would review and summarize the detailed fee schedules and return recommendations; the county did not announce a deadline for that staff report during the recorded portion of the bid opening.
The bid opening chiefly consisted of reading and recording the submitted fee schedules and logistics terms so they can be compared; no contract awards, formal approvals or detailed scoring were made during this session. The county will receive a staff recommendation after Solid Waste completes its review of the submissions.
