Environmental services

Tender description

The contract is for the collection of household and commercial waste and recycling, street cleansing and ancillary services. It broadly covers the collection of waste from households, schools, charities, businesses, street cleaning, litter bin emptying, on-street waste and recycling containers, bulky waste collections, cleansing of parks and open spaces, market cleansing and waste collection, special events services and winter maintenance. Collected waste and recycling is to be delivered by the successful contractor to delivery points nominated by the Contracting Authority (see procurement documents). The Contracting Authority has a depot available for use in the provision of the services (see procurement documents). Economic operators may however prefer to use their own sites. Further information on the delivery points and the depot is provided in the procurement documents. The successful contractor will be required to provide vehicles and equipment for the provision of the services. This procurement is being undertaken pursuant to the competitive dialogue procedure using the electric tendering system www.londontenders.org (“portal”). Economic operators will need to register an interest on the portal in order to participate and the registration is free. All documentation available from and all communication to be conducted via the portal at https://londontenders.org.procontract/suppliers.nsf To express interest economic operators must complete the Selection Questionnaire (SQ) included in the portal documentation. The Contracting Authority's needs and requirements for the contract and background information are included in the procurement documents published with this notice. It is intended that this procurement will be a streamlined competitive dialogue. There will be no outline solutions stage. Economic operators are referred to the procurement documents for further information. The collection element of the services includes the following types of household waste: residual waste, dry recyclable waste, food waste and garden waste, clinical waste and bulky household waste. The commercial waste service will include residual waste and dry recyclable waste as a minimum. The Contracting Authority is keen to develop its commercial waste offering through the contract, and options particularly with regards to dry recyclable waste and the introduction of food waste collections are to be explored as part of the competitive dialogue. In relation to the provision of finance for vehicles and equipment which individually cost more than 25 000,00 GBP economic operators are referred to the procurement documents for information.