Sludge transport services

Tender description

Each year, United Utilities produces circa 450 000 tonnes of sludge through its Wastewater Treatment Works across the region. 300 000 tonnes of this is recycled to agricultural land and 150,000 tonnes is burnt through the Company's incinerator based at Shell Green. This treated Sludge is known as biosolids. Lot 1- Scheduled Services The scope of this lot is for the provision of Biosolids Transportation and Associated Services across the companies 14 Waste Water sites Lot 2 Reactive Services The scope of this lot is for the provision of a reactive services for biosolids produced above the scheduled services at the Company's Shell Green site. Each year, United Utilities recycles an estimated 300,000 tonnes of its Biosolids to land. The requirement of this agreement is to manage the loading, transportation, unloading, stockpiling, land management and stockpile management for this volume of Biosolids across 14 of the company's sites: — Burnley — Lancaster — Blackburn — Carlisle* — Workington* — Penrith* — Shell Green / SBAP — Southport — Stockport — Leigh — Ellsemere port — Bromborough — Crewe. The requirement of this agreement is to manage the loading, transportation, unloading, stockpiling, land management and stockpile management for the reactive services at the company's shell green site. Lot 2 reactive services consists of the reactive service provided at the Company's Shell site In the event of a breakdown of the sites incinerator when additional sludge is being produced above the predicted volume managed as part of the lot 1 scheduled services.