Waste and rubbish containers and bins

Tender description

Dublin City Council is responsible for street cleaning and managing waste throughout the city. There is a network of over 3 500 street bins which are manually emptied on a regular basis the timing of which varies depending on the profile of the street. There has been an increasing trend of successful deployment of smart bin technologies in other cities and Dublin City Council is seeking to enter Technical Dialogue with interested parties in relation to the introduction of smart street bin technology to Dublin. Part of the Technical dialogue may involve, at the City Council's discretion, the trialling or testing of possible solutions. Please note that this is not a call for competition and no tender documents are available at this stage. Also the process will not be utilised in order to preclude any future competition to be conducted by Dublin City Council. Without prejudice to competition in the market places, the purpose of this Technical Dialogue will be to examine and consider the various technical and commercial options which might present themselves through a competitive tender process to be advertised in the near future. The Technical Dialogue may also assist Dublin City Council in the development of the procurement strategy for any subsequent competition.