Refuse recycling services

Tender description

The purpose of this Contract Notice is to facilitate the appointment of a supplier to fulfil the Authority's requirement for the provision of the secure destruction and disposal of confidential waste for bulk volumes of waste paper material and minor amounts of confidential plastic and media waste from Newcastle upon Tyne plus additional ad-hoc requirements of bulk waste paper throughout the rest of the Authority's UK estate. It is intended that the contract will be placed initially for a 3 year term, with the Authority retaining the option to extend by a further period of 12 months. The Authority anticipates that the confidential waste disposal activities have the potential to generate revenue for the Authority. We are required by our sponsor the Department of Health to retain hard copies of paper prescription forms for a minimum of 6 months. These are currently stored in our secure facility in Benton Newcastle upon Tyne. After this duration we must then ensure that the forms are securely destroyed and disposed. The current contract for the secure destruction and disposal is due to expire in January 2017 and we require a contract to be in place within sufficient time of this date to ensure continuity of service. In addition to the large volume of prescription forms we also have other items of confidential paper, media and plastic cards stored at our facility in Benton, Newcastle upon Tyne, which require secure destruction and disposal. There is also a requirement to provision for the collection of bulk volumes of paper waste from the Authority's UK estate on an ad-hoc basis as the requirement may arise throughout the duration of the contract.