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McCarthy said, but did not offer the additional services. Those extras, plus the company’s experience, put its bid “head and shoulders" above the rest.
Piedmont Trash, he said, bid at $168,000, but offered pickups only three times per week. The company proposed to clean up the dumpster sites as well but at an additional charge. There was no offer of a landfill compactor. The company, incorporated recently by Rappahannock orchardist Alexander Sharp and attorney Douglas K. Baumgarder, does not have experience in either trash collection or landfilling operations, Mr. McCarthy added. “That factor weighed against them.”
Big J Trash Service, owned by Stephen Kellison of Amissville, submitted the low bid, at $110,000 for
92.6%