Environmental Enforcement Service

Tender description

Important information - PLEASE READ The deadline for submitting your response to this contract opportunity is 27th March 2017 at 14:00. Suppliers interested in this opportunity should click on the ‘Register interest in this opportunity’ button in the top right of the screen. If you are not already logged into the system, you will be required to log in before you can ‘Register interest in this opportunity’. New users to the system must register first to obtain a user name and password before returning to this opportunity. Once suppliers have registered their interest they can access the full tender documentation automatically from ‘My Activities’ on the home page. There is a guide for using the Supplying the South West system within the attachments section of this advert. Please follow the guide from page 36 on ‘How to Access Tender Documents through Supplying the South West’ within the attachments section to the right which provides a step-by-step screen shot of how to access the tender documents. The documents shown within the attachments section of the advert are watermarked as Read-Only. These Read-Only documents should only be used to confirm if this is an opportunity that you wish to bid for and they are not a full list of all of the tender documents available. Please do not complete these tender documents as they are Read-Only. To access the full tender documents, please click on the ‘Register interest in this opportunity’ button in the top right. As soon as you have done this, you will be able to access the full tender documents by following the guide ‘How to Access Tender Documents through Supplying the South West. The Council seeks the services of a private enforcement company to issue Fixed Penalty Notices (FPN) for specific environmental offences. The Contractor will be required to provide a minimum of three suitably trained officers (the “Enforcement Officers”) to patrol the areas of the Borough (as may be directed in accordance with paragraph 3 of this Part) and issue FPNs for any offences found to be in breach of the following legislation: • Disposing of Litter (including litter from a moving vehicle and spitting) – Section 87/88 Environmental Protection Act 1990 • Fouling of Land by Dogs & Failure to remove dog faeces from land – Dog Control Order. Section 55 Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act 2005 or Failure to remove dog faeces from land – Sections 3(2) & 4 Dogs Fouling of Land Act 1996 • Exposing vehicles for sale on the road - Section 3 & 6 Clean Neighbourhoods & Environment Act 2005 • Repairing vehicles on the road - Section 4 & 6 Clean Neighbourhoods & Environment Act 2005 • Fly-posting - Section 43, 43A & 44 Anti-Social Behaviour Act 2003 • Graffiti - Section 43 & 43A Anti-Social Behaviour Act 2003 • Painting or inscribing upon the surface, a tree, structure or works on the highway - Section 132 (1) Highways Act 1980 • Other environmental legislation and associated offences as the parties may agree in writing from time to time, but subject always to clause 6.2 of the Contract. As part of this service the Council is offering some office space that can be used run the service. Keywords: Enforcement, Fixed Penalty, Security