RFT FOR THE OPERATION AND MANAGEMENT OF CIVIC AMENITY AND RECYCLING SERVICES AT PIGEON HOUSE ROAD, RINGSEND, DUBLIN 4 AND SHAMROCK TERRACE, ALDBOROUGH PARADE, NORTHSTRAND ROAD, DUBLIN 1

Tender description

Dublin City Council wishes to invite tenders using the Open Procedure to establish a Single Party Framework Agreement for the operation and management of the Council’s Civic Amenity (CA) facilities, located at Ringsend and North Strand, and operating under Certificates of Registration from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). A Single Party Framework Agreement constitutes a means of establishing overall terms and conditions in accordance with which, for a specified duration, individual contracts may or may not be awarded. The Framework Agreement will be established as a Single-Party Framework Agreement with the tenderer selected following the tender stage and the application of the award criteria. Admission to the Framework Agreement will be on the basis of the most economically advantageous tender (MEAT) received. Tenderers should note that there is no guaranteed level of expenditure under this Framework Agreement and that the Contracting Authority shall be under no obligation to purchase any minimum value of service under this Framework Agreement. The essential operational ingredients of the contracts will be made up of a number of key components: recovery, recycling, public liaison and final disposal. Contracts will also make full provision for the waste handling equipment, repairs, replacement and maintenance of the equipment and the infrastructure included on sites. Based on 2019 data, the current tonnages being processed from the site at Ringsend is circa 3000 tonnes per annum and from the site at North Strand, circa 2,100 tonnes per annum. The tenderer will be deemed to have satisfied itself of the effects of extraneous factors including the economic climate, in determining the amounts of recyclable and bulky waste being received and handled at the facility. Fluctuation in seasonal, weekly and daily arisings can be expected, and may be influenced by legislative requirements, social factors and holiday periods.