Waste and Recycling Collection, Street and Public Open Space Cleansing Services Contract

Tender description

Cornwall Council (the Authority) seeks a suitably experienced and accredited Services Provider to provide a comprehensive range of waste and recycling collection, street and public open space cleansing services across the whole of the County of Cornwall. The contract will cover the collection of dry recyclable, residual and biologically degradable waste from households and commercial properties, and the cleansing of streets and public open spaces, including beaches, as well as the service provision for the likes of Office Waste, Bulky Waste, Clinical Waste and other associated services. The Authority seeks to contract with a Services Provider that can actively manage materials used and discarded in Cornwall in a sustainable manner to improve the value of these services in Cornwall to all customers, and the cleanliness of the County. The Authority will require the successful Services Provider to implement a range of Social Value based initiatives to realize Socio-economic benefits. The current outsourced contract for 'Waste and Recycling Collection, Street and Beach Cleansing Services' will terminate on 31st March 2020, with the new contract anticipated to commence on 1st April 2020. It is envisaged this contract will have an initial term of eight (8) years with provision to extend by a further two (2) years, with the estimated term value of the Contract being approximately 20 000 000 GBP per annum. The overall procurement process to be adopted will be the Competitive Dialogue process, consisting of an initial Pre-Qualification (PQQ) Stage (PQQ) stage to select Tenderers for ISDS (invitation to submit detailed solutions), followed by provisional ISRS (invitation to submit a refined solution) and ISFT (invitation to submit a final tender) stages, with no ISOS (invitation to submit outline solutions) stage. There will be down-selection at the PQQ stage and the ISDS stages and possibly at the provisional ISRS stage. The Services Provider will be selected from the ISFT stage. All ISDS, provisional ISRS and ISFT submissions will be evaluated and scores and constructive feedback will be provided to Tenderers at each stage. Dialogue will precede the provisional ISRS and ISFT stages. Of particular note, for waste collection, at the ISDS stage, the Authority requires the submission of detailed solutions for both of the following service provisions : 1. Mandatory solution: Weekly recycling and food waste collections with fortnightly residual waste collections (the Welsh waste collection model); or 2. Mandatory Variant solution: Weekly residual waste collections and fortnightly recycling collections (retaining the existing collection service). The Authority will evaluate both and anticipates making a decision during December, 2018, on its preferred solution to dialogue, based on affordability. Please refer to the ISDS Guidance Document for clarity over the use of the term 'Variant' in relation to this Procurement exercise.