Economic Impact Study Services

The Vendor is required to provide enhanced knowledge regarding composting practices within the state while assessing the financial impact that voluntary and potentially mandated large-scale composting programs can have on municipalities and state agencies
- Identify compost capacity potentials from a previously completed waste characterization study. 
- A comparison between current facility capacities and estimated potential capacities based on a previously completed waste characterization study. 
- Gather details on each facility’s ownership (private or public), feedstock type and volume, and operation status (active or inactive).
- Develop an Economic Impact and Viability Report that highlights the financial impact that voluntary and potentially mandated large-scale composting programs can have on municipalities and state agencies. 
- The report should also include a cost analysis to determine the expenses associated with large-scale compost processing as well as a roadmap for acquiring the necessary equipment to establish and operate a successful compost facility.
- Identify current end markets that have not yet expanded but could potentially. Estimate the capacities of those end markets in cubic yards per year. 
- Determine roadblocks and constraints that are keeping these potential markets from emerging, growing, and/or thriving.
- These can include, but are not limited to, market/economic/cost constraints, compost quality constraints, transportation constraints, regulation constraints, feedstock constraints, and residential/business level of support. 
- Compost facility capacity constraints.
- Determine how these current and potential end markets differ by county (e.g., type of markets, capacities, and constraints). 
- Conduct spatial analysis (i.e., examine geographic patterns to understand the relationships between locations) to compare areas where compost is generated to where composting markets currently exist or are projected to develop. 
- This analysis should identify potential high-cost areas due to transportation distances and highlight regions with larger compost markets across the state.
- Assess the economic feasibility of implementing large-scale (private and public compost facilities that can handle municipality amounts of organic waste) composting programs in urban and rural settings. 
- Determine what types of realistic actions can be taken to help potential end markets emerge, grow, and be sustainable. 
- Evaluate the feasibility of implementing both voluntary and potentially mandated large-scale composting programs. 
- Analyze the economic effects of voluntary and potentially mandated large-scale composting programs on municipalities and state agencies.
- Provide recommendations on which action items are the most feasible and impactful based on current resources and constraints. 
- Offer recommendations for funding sources and grant opportunities to support the acquisition of composting infrastructure. 
- Providing recommendations for policy frameworks, regulation updates, funding mechanisms, and implementation strategies.

- Questions/Inquires Deadline: December 08, 2025