Vendor Fee List

The following list comprises the Vendor Fee definitions utilized by Discovery.

Account Setup Fee

A one-time charge applied to cover the administrative costs associated with setting up a new customer account.

Admin Fee

A surcharge assessed by the vendor for administrative activity, such as manual invoice processing or other account activity.

Annual Price Increase

The amount by which a vendor is permitted to increase service rates on an annual basis.

Bulk Item Removal

A fee for the removal of large bulky items (e.g sofas, dresses, mattresses, sinks, etc.)

Commercial Service Overage

A penalty surcharge from the vendor for material overflowing out of the container or on the ground near a container.

Compliance and Business Impact Charge

A surcharge assessed by the vendor to offset regulatory compliance charges.

Container Service

A recurring charge applied per container that grants the customer one container exchange per container per year.

Contamination

A penalty surcharge applied when any unacceptable items are placed into a container that covers the cost for the additional handling, processing, transportation and/or disposing of such unacceptable materials.

Delivery

A fee assessed by the vendor to deliver empty container(s) in order to then perform a service.

Dry Run Trip Charge

A penalty charge applied when a vendor arrives to perform a scheduled service but is unable to complete service due to circumstances outside of vendor's control (blocked container, overloaded container, locked enclosure, etc.)

Environment

A surcharge assessed by the vendor to offset the cost of operating landfills, collection, transfer, and recycling operations.

Extra Pickup

A fee applied when a customer requests a one-time, additional service on a container outside of its regular service schedule.

Fuel Environment

A combined line item charge of Fuel, Oil, or Energy fee and Environmental fee.

Franchise Fee

A fee levied by a local government to the waste vendor(s), which is passed onto waste generators. Similar to a tax.

Fuel Energy or Oil

A surcharge assessed by the vendor to offset the cost of fuel, energy, or oil, exclusive of any other fuel, energy, oil, environmental, or regulatory surcharge.

Gate Access Fee

A fee to offset the increased time and/or labor for a vendor to use a gate or door to perform a service.

Inactivity Charge

A penalty charge applied when a container is not serviced for a pre-established number of days.

Incineration

A charge applied when materials are placed into a container that cannot be disposed of at a landfill and must be taken to an incinerator.

Initial Delivery

A one-time charge to deliver a new container at the start of service.

Landfill Surcharge

A surcharge assessed by either the vendor or the landfill for disposing at the landfill. This is not the same as the cost per ton to dispose of material.

Late Payment

A penalty charge from the vendor for late payment of an outstanding invoice.

Liner Tarp

A one-time charge, per lift/per container to supply a liner for a roll off container.

Lock Installation

A one-time charge to install a container lock at the customer's request.

Lock Recurring

A recurring charge to cover the maintenance costs associated with having a container lock.

Minimum Tonnage

A penalty charge from the vendor for not achieving a minimum weight within a container. This charge guarantees revenue minimums to the vendor.

Miscellaneous or Data

A fee for covering anything that's not already covered by an existing Vendor Fee. Vendor Invoice Line Items tagged with this fee will not be validated during the auditing process.

Push Out

A fee for the added service of the vendor moving containers a meaningful distance in order to service them, and placing those containers back at the end of the service.

Roll Off or Compactor Service Overage

A penalty charge from the vendor for exceeding the maximum allowed weight of the container.

Recyclable Material Offset

A surcharge only applied to recycling service charges, that allows vendor to achieve an acceptable operating margin despite increased recycling costs and/or declines in the value of processed recyclables in the global commodities market.

Regulatory Cost Recovery

Exclusive to Waste Management. A recurring charge intended to cover a portion of Waste Management's enterprise-wide costs associated with host community fees, waste disposal taxes and similar charges paid to municipal or other governmental authorities or agencies to engage in the waste collection, transfer, processing, disposal, treatment, and/or recycling business, plus an acceptable operating margin.

Relocate

A fee for the movement of a container, generally within the property.

Removal

A fee for the removal of a container from the property. This is typically matched to non-Rolloff Service Charges, as Rolloff Sevice Charges would simply be charged a "haul" rate.

Rental

A recurring charge for the use of a vendor's equipment. Depending on how your services are configured, this may be matched to an Allocatable Fee on your Vendor Invoices during auditing.

Repair

A one-time charge for any parts/labor associated with performing repairs to equipment.

Square Footage

A recurring charge for the use of a vendor's equipment. Depending on how your services are configured, this may be matched to an Allocatable Fee on your Vendor Invoices during auditing.

Swap

A fee for the delivery and subsequent removal of a container of a similar size and function.

Tax

A general charge classified as a tax from a local government agency.

MTA Tax

A charge classified as a tax from the regional metropolitan transit authority in which the service is performed.

City Tax

A charge classified as a tax from the city in which the service is performed.

Sales Tax

A charge classified as a tax, specifically a Sales tax, in the jurisdiction in which the service is performed.

State Tax

A charge classified as a tax, specifically a State tax, in the jurisdiction in which the service is performed.

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