Refuse and waste related services

Tender description

Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council (the Authority) is seeking to award a contract for the receipt (and collection and transport as required) and processing of kerbside commingled recyclables collected by the Authority from households in the Craigavon and Banbridge areas, such that a minimum of 85 % (by net weight) of such materials will be recycled. Economic Operators will be required to demonstrate that they have the equipment, processes and end markets in place to achieve this, and will be required to deal with the remaining material in the following order: 1) composting; 2) reuse; 3) recovery (minimum acceptable level is R1 rated facility); and 4) disposal. This tender process relates to a re-procurement of similar services as originally advertised under contract notice 2016/S 104-186321 that was published in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) on 1 June 2016, which procurement process was discontinued. The Authority is seeking to award a contract for the receipt (and collection and transport as required) and processing of all Contract Waste in accordance with the terms of the contract. Within the Banbridge area, the contractor must be able to collect Contract Waste and/or Output Materials (as both are defined in the Invitation to Tender (ITT)) from the bulking area at the Community Recycling Centre, Scarva Road, Banbridge, and shall be solely responsible for providing (including bearing the cost of) any haulage or transport of Contract Waste and / or Output Materials from the bulking area to the contractor's delivery point(s) (and/or contingency delivery point(s), as necessary) or initial processing facility, as appropriate. Within the Craigavon area, the Contract Waste shall be delivered to the successful contractor's delivery point(s) by the Authority. Economic Operators are referred to the contract (particularly Schedule 1 (Specification) thereof), which will be provided to Economic Operators along with the ITT, for a full description of the services that the successful Economic Operator will be required to provide under the contract. Economic Operators should note that, if successful, they will be required to process all material which has been collected through the Authority's kerbside collection scheme for commingled recyclables including, in each case, any non-recyclable items and contaminants. Economic Operators must use all reasonable endeavours to implement the order of preference specified in Section II.I.4 above and to minimise the amount of Contract Waste and/or Output Materials which is ultimately sent to landfill. A full description of ‘Contract Waste’ is provided in the ITT, however, this comprises any material which has been collected through the Authority's kerbside collection scheme for commingled recyclables including, in each case, any non-recyclable items and contaminants, which has been delivered to the successful contractor at its delivery point(s) or contingency delivery point(s) or has been (or is to be) collected by or on behalf of the contractor at the bulking area referred to above for processing in accordance with the contract. Economic Operators should also note that the Authority does not currently offer glass collection to residents as part of its kerbside collection and does not intend to introduce this material for collection during the term of the contract. However, whilst the Authority advises residents that it does not offer glass collection, the Contract Waste may contain a small percentage of glass or other materials or contaminants. The contractor is expected to deal with any non-recyclable items and contaminants in the Contract Waste, which may (without limitation) include glass, without any additional fees becoming payable. Currently, the Authority is providing kerbside collection of Contract Waste from 59,864 locations — in the Craigavon area (41 317) and the Banbridge area (18 547). The Authority utilises 83 individual rounds designated to lift from these locations over a ten-day (2 weekly) collection cycle. An average collection round realises 3.98 tonnes of contract waste per route. There are approximately 330 tonnes of Contract Waste collected over this ten-day cycle. Economic Operators are required to make their own investigations and carry out their own assessments and will be given the opportunity to carry out sampling of the composition of materials to be treated during the course of the tender process. The Authority estimates that the total contract value will range from between 425 000 GBP to 722 500 GBP per annum, excluding VAT.