Refuse recycling services

Tender description

Ryedale District Council and North Yorkshire County Council are inviting tenders from organisations who will be holding a valid Environmental Permit to accept garden waste collected from kerbside domestic waste collection rounds and Household Waste Recycling Centres, to then compost the material, in accordance with Environment Agency regulations. This tender process is designed to be compliant with EU procurement regulations. For efficiency of operations, RDC will be required to apply the ‘proximity principle’ when transporting waste materials, which will result in a percentage of garden waste being delivered to a number of composting sites across the District. Could you indicate in the table below how different quantities of garden waste delivered to your composting site would affect ‘Gate Fee’ values. Contract duration: the above contract will be for an initial 3-year period, with option to extend by a further 12 months. Collections: garden waste for composting is collected from households across Ryedale District using refuse collection vehicles, with an additional tonnage coming from Household Waste Recycling Centres (skip sites). Garden waste is collected Monday to Friday, except where public holidays occur (in which case access to the composting site would be required on a Saturday). There is a reduced service in winter months of December, January and February. Tonnages: for the purpose of this exercise, Ryedale District is split into 7 zones. A zone map is posted on the YORtender website — Contract Reference: A6HM-XECIEE. The 7 zones comprise: Malton and Norton towns Pickering Town and Thornton le Dale The A170 Corridor from Middleton to Sutton Bank, Villages around the B1257 (Malton to Helmsley), Villages along the A64 (Malton to Sand Hutton), Villages along the A64 (Malton to Staxton) — Wolds area North York Moors area (north of the A170). The total annual quantity of garden waste available in the District is in excess of 5 000 tonnes and RDC would be looking to expect a minimum of 500 tonnes per composting site, per year. However, based on current averages this is more likely to be around a 1 000 tonnes per composting site, per year. It will be a requirement that all vehicle loads of delivered garden waste will require a weight ticket to assist with accurate data collection and to avoid potential vehicle overloading issues. An on-site weighbridge at the composting site would be beneficial, to enable RDC to provide efficient and effective services, avoiding unnecessary vehicle journeys to off-site weighing facilities. Tariff/margins must not be subject to annual inflationary increases in the first 3 years of the contract. RPI (or similar) increases can be proposed for year 4.