Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental services

Tender description

Refer to II.2.4. Stafford Borough is a mixed urban and rural district covering an area of 597 km2 in the middle of the County of Staffordshire. It has a population of approximately 130 000, with 2 main towns, the County town of Stafford and the town of Stone; along with a number of villages of various sizes. The service currently consists of an alternate weekly collection of, residual, dry recycling, and garden waste from domestic properties. The service includes the processing of dry recycling and recyclable materials arising from the collections. There are a small number of domestic properties which have weekly collections. Residual and dry recycling collections are made at schools, village halls, and churches. Separate paper collections are made at schools using 1100 lt bins. All collection services are currently operated from the council-owned centrally located depot (Tollgate Drive, Stafford) which in addition is used to store dry recycling and paper before being transported in bulk, in the case of dry recycling to an MRF and in the case of paper direct to a mill. Residual waste, garden waste, and recycling are collected from all properties in the district (approximately 57000). Residual waste is collected using 180, 240 and for larger families 360 liters wheeled bins. Larger 1, 100 lt containers are in place at communal properties. In addition, civic amenity visits are made to parishes on Saturdays. Garden waste is collected from all properties in the district by means of a 240 lt wheeled bin; other than communal blocks. Dry recycling is collected from all properties (approximately 57 000). The collection is 2 stream using a caddy in 240 liters wheeled bins. The insert is used for collecting paper, commingled recycling is collected in the body of the wheeled bin. Recyclables presently include textiles and large WEEE and metal that are recovered for recycling. The ownership of dry recycling, paper and recyclables pass to the contractor who arranges the processing and sale of the material. An assisted collection service must also be provided where necessary. A number of ancillary services, including the collection of bulky waste, the collection from bringing sites the delivery and retrieval of waste and recycling containers, may also be required as part of the contract. A new contract will be required to commence circa 4.2.2018. Stafford Borough Council will call off a contract from the framework agreement to fulfill this requirement. The contract will be of a duration of 10 years and two months, with an option to extend for a further 10 years. NOTE: The spend values stated in II.1.7 and V2.4 represent the possible spend on the full framework has given the stated call-off activity of the Contracting Authority and each of the stated partners (Cannock Chase DC, and Lichfield/Tamworth (combined) councils), should they optionally call-off from the framework. The range of spending is approximately 80m to 140m with the lower amount approximated to the call-off from the Contracting Authority alone.