Collection & Disposal of Hazardous Waste

Tender description

Translink, comprising of Northern Ireland Railways, Metro and Ulsterbus is the all-embracing title for the integrated public transport operations in Northern Ireland. Translink requires a competent contractor to provide a hazardous waste collection and disposal service. The hazardous waste management service will include managing several streams of hazardous waste such as waste oil, oil/fuel filters, oily rags / absorbents, grease tubs, aerosol cans, paint cans containing residues, paint solvent waste, fluorescent tubes and vehicle & domestic batteries. Tenderers will be required to demonstrate and provide details of how each hazardous waste stream is disposed off and provide a full traceable lifecycle inventory for each waste stream. The successful tenderer must be licenced and be compliant with all current Northern Ireland policies/ legislation/regulations for the collection and disposal of Hazardous Waste and its transfer. The initial contract will be for a period of 3 years with options to extend for a further 2 periods of 1 year each. PQQ responses must be submitted before: 3pm on Thursday 26th April 2012. Translink is utilising an electronic tendering system to manage this procurement and communicate with Tenderers. Accordingly, there will be no hard copy documents issued and it is intended that all communications with Translink including the submission of PQQ and Tender responses will be conducted via www.e-sourcingni.bravosolution.co.uk. Unless stated otherwise in these Instructions or in writing from Translink, all communications including queries from Applicants and any PQQ amendments from Translink during the period of this procurement exercise shall be submitted through and published via the online messaging facility provided on the e-sourcing NI portal (see “Messages” section). The onus lies on the applicant to read and keep up to date with all the information published on eSourcing NI in relation to this requirement.