Garden Waste and Uncooked Kitchen Food Waste

Tender description

Ipswich Borough Council is inviting tenders for the receipt and treatment of garden and uncooked (vegetable kitchen) food waste. The delivery point for the receipt of material could either be a direct treatment facility or a Waste Transfer Station within 10 miles of IP1 1AA. The scope of this procurement is anticipated to be for approximately 10,000 tonnes per annum, the amount will be variable over the period of the contract and this tonnage not being warranted or guaranteed. It should be noted that Ipswich Borough Council is, via a separate procurement inviting tenders for services for the provision treatment of Garden Waste only. The treatment of the Organic Waste will produce a compost material to accepted industry standards. For the avoidance of doubt the processed material must be classifies as recycled in accordance with National Indicator 192 (http://www.sandwelltrends.info/lisv2/ni_handbook/NI192.pdf) or any future amendment to this standard.