Refuse and waste related services

Tender description

Provision of a secure, efficient, auditable end to end disposal service for seized and abandoned goods. The contractor will be required to provide secure facilities and procedures, prevent loss, maintain an accurate audit trail of all its activities, ensure that the chain of evidence is maintained, provide destruction certificates, provide value for money and comply with indicative holding timelines. The requirement covers the disposal of both hazardous and non-hazardous goods resulting from HMRC compliance activities with the majority of disposals being generated by Inland-Pre Clearance operations at the newly setup sites at Hayes and Milton Keynes. Income generation from disposals will be expected. Volumes cannot be guaranteed, historical volumes have been used to provide an indication. Estimated value includes call offs beyond the initial framework term of 4 years. Weightings: Lot 1: 70 % Price/30 % Quality, Lot 2: 40 % Price/60 % Quality, Lot 3: 30 % Price/70 % Quality. The authority wishes to appoint suppliers who can provide the most economic secure route for destruction and disposal via waste to energy. The mandatory requirements for the services shall include but not be limited to: • secure destruction and disposal services; • audit trail for waste destruction and disposal; • MI reporting. Enabled for use by the Home Office and WPS (Trading Standards). The authority wishes to appoint suppliers who can provide secure processing for waste goods prior to destruction and disposal with an increased emphasises on recycling wherever possible and providing rebates to the authority (and/or Client Organisation’s).The mandatory requirements for the services shall include but not be limited to: • secure processing, destruction and disposal services; • audit trail for waste processing destruction and disposal; • MI reporting. Enabled for use by the Home Office and WPS (Trading Standards). The purpose of lot 3 of this framework agreement is to appoint a single supplier who shall be responsible for the provision of entirely independent waste consultancy and advisory services to the authority (and/or Client Organisation’s). Lot 3 must be entirely separate to lots 1 and 2. Enabled for use by the Home Office and WPS (Trading Standards).