Refuse and waste related services

Tender description

NHS Commercial Solutions is seeking to award a framework agreement for the provision of waste management services for the benefit of a number of healthcare organisations in Surrey and Sussex. We wish to appoint a pool of Service Providers to a number of Lots accommodating a diverse waste category, maximising the participation of SMEs and facilitating a competitive tender platform allowing the participating organisations to award compliant Call-off contract(s). Clinical Waste Services will include but not be limited to — infectious (dressings, plaster casts, feminine hygiene, linen, disposable clothing), sharps, medicinal (non-cytotoxic or non-cytostatic), cytotoxic and cytostatic, amalgam, teeth, anatomical, pregnancy remains, gypsum, radioactive, mattresses, etc. General and Recycling Waste Services will include but not be limited to — domestic, food, recycling, dry mixed recycling, glass, furniture, scrap metal, recording media, x-ray films, ink and toner cartridges, batteries, cardboards, paper, plastics, etc. Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment will include all electrical items identified under the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Regulation. Offensive Waste Services will include feminine hygiene wastes/nappy bins from toilets. Confidential Waste Services will include all documents and other materials which contains patient identifiable records, commercially sensitive information and information which is not available at the public domains; for example, documents, identification badges, credit cards, CD and DVDs, other electronic and non-electronic medium. Hazardous Waste Services will include but not be limited to ink and toner cartridges, batteries, polystyrene, aerosols, chemicals, oils, paints and solvents, sewage, pesticides, cylinders and liquids, etc. Integrated Waste Management Services will be a combination of all the services from Lots 1, 2, 3, 5 and 6. For the purposes of Lot 7, the requirements of Lot 4 are covered by Lot 1.