HONOLULU CLASS A BIOSOLIDS DBO PROJECT

As a key component of the City and County of Honolulu's plan to upgrade its largest wastewater treatment plant, eliminate landfilling of its biosolids and implement an environmentally sound Class A recycling program, the City employed the highly-effective design/build/operate (DBO) procurement process which it had successfully utilized on two prior major environmental project, their waste-to-energy and water reclamation facilities.This latest project required a private service contractor to evaluate, select and propose a proven Class A biosolids processing technology, undertake all design, engineering and environmental permitting for the complete system, perform all construction, construction management, QA/QC and start-up/acceptance testing, undertake long-term operation and maintenance of the facility and provide transportation and marketing of the Class A end product. In order to ensure the long-term success of the project, the City and the Contractor would need to enter into a well-defined contractual partnership that recognized the variable nature of biosolids production, potential changes in regulations and numerous other outside factors that might impact the program over its twenty-five year planned life.The final contractual agreement incorporates the decisions and terms developed during the two-year procurement process and documents the technical, economic, regulatory, operational, legal and risk management structure that underlies the twenty-five year partnership between the City and the Contractor.