RFP for Residential Garbage Collection Town of Lyman

Location:	South Carolina
Posted:	Apr 22, 2026
Due:	May 21, 2026
Agency:	State of South Carolina - State Fiscal Accountability Authority(SFAA)
Type of Government:	State & Local
Category:	S - Utilities and Training Services
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TOWN OF LYMAN

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS

RESIDENTIAL

SOLID WASTE COLLECTION

DUE: May 21, 2026 at noon

TOWN OF LYMAN

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS

PROPOSALS will be accepted until noon ET, May 21, 2026. All qualified companies

are invited to submit proposals to the Town of Lyman for the following:

SUBMITTAL:

RESIDENTIAL SOLID WASTE COLLECTION

Proposals for this solicitation will be accepted no later than noon

ET, May 21, 2026

TO SUBMIT PROPOSALS:

Email to Town Administrator, Noel Blackwell

nblackwell@lymansc.gov

Deliver or mail to 81 Groce Road, Lyman, SC 29365

DEADLINE FOR QUESTIONS: May 11, 2026

EMAIL:

nblackwell@lymansc.gov

Any revisions to this Request for Proposals will be issued and distributed as an addendum. All

addenda, additional communications, responses to questions, etc. pertaining to the RFP will be

posted on the Town Website at:

All offerors should consult this website for updates before submitting proposals.

https://www.lymansc.gov/departments/administration/bids_and_proposals/index.php

DEADLINE ENFORCED

Proposals received after the time and date set for receipt of proposals will not be accepted. It is

the offeror’s responsibility to ensure timely delivery of their proposal. Telephone or facsimile

proposals will not be accepted.

From time to time, the Town may have to release written changes to a solicitation due to an

Inadvertent error or omission on the part of the Town or to an inquiry from an interested vendor

during the question phase of the solicitation. No changes to the published terms and conditions,

scope of work, minimum requirements, or insurance and bonding requirements will be

considered unless they are submitted in compliance with the deadline for the questions or

clarification phase of the solicitation. Any changes to the published terms and conditions, scope

of work, minimum requirements, or insurance and bonding requirements will be published in a

formal, written addendum. The Town is not obligated to make any changes to the published

solicitation based on an inquiry from a vendor. The Town will not consider “red-line”

amendments to any contract with the successful bidder, as all requests for changes must be posed

in the question phase and accepted in formal addendum. The Town reserves the right to

negotiate with the successful bidder in order to comply with budgetary allocations.

Any offer submitted as a result of this solicitation shall be binding on the offeror for NINETY

(90) CALENDAR DAYS FOLLOWING THE SPECIFIED OPENING DATE. Any proposal for

which the offeror specifies a shorter acceptance period may be rejected.

During the performance of the contract, the contractor shall comply with any and all applicable

federal, state, or local laws, rules and regulations relating to a drug-free workplace.

If the offeror discovers any ambiguity, conflict, discrepancy, omission or other errors in the RFP,

offeror shall immediately notify the Town of such an error in writing and request modification or

clarification of the document. The offeror is responsible for clarifying any ambiguity, conflict,

discrepancy, omission or other error in the RFP, or it shall be deemed waived.

Proprietary and/or Confidential Information

Your proposal is a public document under the South Carolina Freedom of Information Act

(FOIA), except as to information that may be exempt from disclosure under the FOIA in the

Town’s sole discretion. If you cannot agree to this standard, please do not submit your proposal.

All information that you desire to be treated as confidential and/or proprietary must be

CLEARLY AND SPECIFICALLY identified, and each page containing confidential and/or

proprietary information, in whole or in part, must be stamped and/or denoted as

CONFIDENTIAL, in bold, in a font of at least 12-point type, in the upper right-hand corner of

the page. All information not so noted and identified may be disclosed by the Town. Blanket-

type identification by designating whole pages or sections as containing confidential and/or

proprietary information will not ensure confidentiality.

This Request for Proposals is being issued by the Town of Lyman. Direct all questions or

requests for clarification of this RFP in writing to the email address shown on page one (1) of

this invitation.

CURRENT EMAIL ADDRESS REQUIRED

All proposals submitted shall include a current email address. Once selected, Notice of Intent to

Award shall be sent to awarded bidder via email. NO hard copy notice will be sent.

Offerors are specifically directed not to contact any other Town personnel for meetings,

conferences, or technical discussions related to this request unless otherwise stated in this RFP.

Failure to adhere to that policy may be grounds for rejection of your proposal.

REQUIRED AFFIDAVITS

Firms submitting proposals are required to include all affidavits found at the end of this Request

for Proposals. If any of the affidavits are not applicable, N/A is an acceptable response.

FEDERAL TERMS AND PROVISIONS REQUIRED IN CONTRACT

The following terms and conditions must appear in any contract entered into the with Successful

Contractor related to the services set forth in this RFP.

1) Access to Records. The following access to records requirements applies to the

Contract in addition to any requirements that may be elsewhere imposed:

a. Contractor agrees to provide Town, the Comptroller General of the United

States, or any of their authorized representatives or designees, access to any

books, documents papers, and records of Contractor which are directly

pertinent to this Agreement for the purposes of making audits, examinations,

excerpts, and transcriptions. Contractor shall keep its books documents,

papers, and records available for this purpose for at least five years after this

Agreement terminates or expires or such longer time as requested by Town at

any time prior to the expiration of the then applicable time frame. This

provision does not limit the applicable statute of limitations.

b. Contractor agrees to permit any of the foregoing parties to reproduce by any

means whatsoever or to copy excerpts and transcriptions as reasonably

needed.

c. Contractor shall ensure that public records that are exempt or confidential and

exempt from public records disclosure requirements are not disclosed except

as authorized by law for the duration of the contract term and following

completion of the contract if Contractor does not transfer the records to Town

or any authorized or designated federal representative.

2) Environmental Compliance.

a. Contractor shall comply with all applicable standard, orders, or regulations

issued pursuant to the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. § 1701 et seq.) and the

Federal Water Pollution Control Act as amended (33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq.).

b. shall report all violations to Town, any applicable State agencies, and the

regional office of the Environmental Protection Agency.

c. Contractor shall include these requirements in each subcontract exceeding

$150,000 financed in whole or in part with federal assistance.

d. Contractor shall comply with the mandatory standards and policies relating to

energy efficiency which are contained in the state energy conservation plan

issued in compliance with the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (42 U.S.C.

§ 6201 et seq.).

3) Contract Work Hours and Safety Standards Act.

a. Overtime requirements. No contractor or subcontractor contracting for any

part of the contract work which may require or involve the employment of

laborers or mechanics shall require or permit any such laborer or mechanic in

any workweek in which he or she is employed on such work to work in excess

of forty hours in such workweek unless such laborer or mechanic receives

compensation at a rate not less than one and one-half times the basic rate of

pay for all hours worked in excess of forty hours in such workweek.

b. Withholding for unpaid wages and liquidated damages. The applicable federal

funding agency shall upon its own action or upon written request of an

authorized representative of the Department of Labor withhold or cause to be

withheld, from any moneys payable on account of work performed by the

contractor or subcontractor under any such contract or any other federal

contract with the same prime contractor, or any other federally-assisted

contract subject to the Contract Work Hours and Safety Standards Act, which

is held by the same prime contractor, such sums as may be determined to be

necessary to satisfy any liabilities of such contractor or subcontractor for

unpaid wages and liquidated damages as provided in the clause set forth in

Paragraph (b) of this Section.

c. Subcontracts. The Contractor or subcontractor shall insert in any subcontracts

the clauses set forth in Paragraphs (a) through (c) of this section and also a

clause requiring the subcontractors to include these clauses in any lower tier

subcontracts. The prime Contractor shall be responsible for compliance by any

subcontractor or lower tier subcontractor with clauses set forth in Paragraphs

(a) through (c) of this Section.

4) Equal Employment Opportunity. This provision is applicable to all federally assisted

construction contracts, as that term is defined at 41 C.F.R. § 60-1.3. To the extent the

Agreement meets this definition, Contractor agrees as follows:

a. The Contractor will not discriminate against any employee or applicant for

employment because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender

identity, or national origin. The Contractor will take affirmative action to

ensure that applicants are employed, and that employees are treated during

employment without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual

orientation, gender identity, or national origin. Such action shall include, but

not be limited to the following: employment, upgrading, demotion, or transfer;

recruitment or recruitment advertising; layoff or termination; rates of pay or

other forms of compensation; and selection for training, including

apprenticeship. The Contractor agrees to post in conspicuous places, available

to employees and applicants for employment, notices to be provided setting

forth the provisions of this nondiscrimination clause.

b. The Contractor will, in all solicitations or advertisements for employees

placed by or on behalf of the Contractor, state that all qualified applicants will

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RFP for Residential Garbage Collection Town of Lyman - Municipality

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