Refuse and waste related services

Tender description

Reception, transfer, treatment and disposal of municipal solid waste services for Argyll and Bute, Inverclyde and West Dunbartonshire Councils. Argyll and Bute, Inverclyde and West Dunbartonshire Councils’ (the Councils), are collaborating in the ‘Reception, Transfer, Treatment and Disposal of Municipal Solid Waste’ due to the geographical locations of the Councils and aggregated tonnage of waste. This should present economies of scale and be more attractive to a wider range of waste processors to allow either inward investment or a haul and treat solution, whereas the individual tonnages would itself not be as attractive for new investment or attract a processor willing to haul smaller tonnages. This should allow for the much needed investment and treatment of waste in the west of Scotland to increase capacity and capability, in turn the Councils’ should be able to secure a sustainable competitive rate whilst achieving security of service provision. West Dunbartonshire Council is acting as the lead authority for this procurement. There is a statutory obligation on all Councils to make arrangements to collect and recycle or process and dispose of waste from households and civic amenity sites. The waste stream of municipal solid waste (MSW) is collected by all Councils and presented in a similar fashion to processors. The key contract deliverable of this procurement is to ensure that Argyll and Bute, Inverclyde and West Dunbartonshire Councils’ individually and collectively, meet their obligations in respect of the forthcoming ban on the landfill disposal of Biodegradable Municipal Waste (BMW) from 1.1.2021 while maintaining a cost effective and sustainable contract. The purpose of this invitation to tender (ITT) is to identify a single service provider deliver best value for the 3 Councils taking into service considerations and compatibility with the Councils existing and possible future collection services. The service provision for each council will be for contractors to offer suitable reception facilities where required, haulage, processing and treatment of municipal solid waste for each council in a compliant manner before and after the biodegradable municipal waste landfill ban in 2021. The 2 waste streams are: Waste Stream 1: Treatment and disposal of residual waste; and Waste Stream 2: Treatment and disposal of bulky waste.