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Palm Beach Solid Waste Authority denies Waste Pro’s waiver request; board votes 4–3 to proceed to price opening
Summary
The Solid Waste Authority board denied Waste Pro’s request for a waiver of the 20% SBE subcontracting requirement after staff found insufficient documentation of required follow-up communications; the board voted 4–3 to deem Waste Pro nonresponsive and open price envelopes Feb. 2.
Waste Pro’s protest of its disqualification from a multimillion-dollar Solid Waste Authority (SWA) procurement was denied by the SWA board after staff concluded the company failed to provide required documentary evidence that it made sufficient, documented good‑faith efforts to reach certified small business enterprises (SBEs).
Miss Barnes, a Waste Pro consultant, told the board that Waste Pro emailed and telephoned nearly 1,000 SBEs using a Mailchimp landing page and paid social advertising but drew only 33 SBEs to an outreach event. "Unfortunately, we only had 33 SBE showed up for the event," she said, and argued that the company had tried to identify additional SBE service lines (towing, lab testing) that could be used in the contract.
Staff and the board focused on whether Waste Pro’s waiver submission met the solicitation’s defined waiver…
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