Government & Municipal Rentals in Philadelphia

Every quote lists every line in plain words: each unit and its service schedule, each dumpster with its days on site, tons included, overage rate and swap price, each container and its rental period, plus delivery and pickup. Nothing is left to a phone call or a rate card. That's the document a buyer can match a purchase order to and a project manager can defend.

Send your vendor requirements with the quote request, like the forms your agency uses, the PO number and any terms the order has to carry, and we'll respond with what's needed. Invoices reference the job and the PO, and a long job bills every 28 days for restrooms and containers and per haul for dumpsters, so the charges follow the work.

The City of Philadelphia posts its bids and contract opportunities on PHLContracts, its procurement site, and other public agencies run their own. For a job you're quoting as a contractor, send the bid documents with your request and the quote comes back in a form you can include with your bid.

When portable restrooms serve the public, the ADA Standards require at least 5% of the units in each cluster to be accessible, with at least one in every cluster, and the accessible units must carry the International Symbol of Accessibility (U.S. Access Board, ADA Standards §213.2). The rule applies at temporary events too. Units for construction crews on a construction site are exempt.

On a public project that's open to the public while it's built, like a park that stays open, a station that keeps running or a school with summer programs, the restrooms the public can use need their accessible units. We build the count into the quote from the layout. See ADA Porta Potty Rental in Philadelphia for the details.

For crews, OSHA sets the minimum number of toilets by the size of the crew, one for 20 workers or fewer and more as the crew grows (29 CFR 1926.51(c)), and requires washing facilities where crews work with paints, coatings or other harmful substances (29 CFR 1926.51(f)). Units are serviced at least weekly. On a long public job, the schedule is set at the start and adjusted as the crew grows and shrinks.

Crews that move along a corridor, like a water main replacement block by block or a repaving project, need units that move with them. We plan the moves with the superintendent so the restrooms are always within reach of the work.

Public sites come with their own rules about where equipment can go. On a street, a dumpster or a container is in the Streets Department's right-of-way and needs its approval; a dumpster also needs the L&I dumpster license. In a park, the placement is agreed with Parks & Recreation. On a school or authority property, the facilities office decides. Tell us who controls the site and we'll work out the placement with them.

See the Philadelphia Dumpster Permit & License Guide for the dumpster rules and Storage Container Rental in Philadelphia for containers.

Schools do their heaviest construction between the last day of classes and the first day of the next year. Roofs, boilers, windows, restrooms and classrooms are all opened up at once, on a schedule that can't slip, with a building that has to be clean and ready by late August. That puts a lot of rentals on a lot of sites at the same time.

Crews need restrooms because the building's own are often part of the work. Dumpsters go in the service lot or the schoolyard, sized to the demolition, with swaps timed to the crew's schedule. Containers hold the classroom furniture and equipment that has to come out of the rooms being renovated and go back in before the doors open. Planning all three together, by building, keeps the summer schedule intact.

Most public orders need the same handful of things. Sending them with the quote request means the quote comes back ready to attach to a requisition.