Food and Garden Waste Treatment

Tender description

The contract involves the transfer, treatment, recovery of any outputs and disposal of any residues/rejects from the treatment of Food and Garden Waste resulting from the weekly kerbside collection service deposited by the Council’s waste collection contractors. The Service Provider under this contract will arrange for regular collections of the Council’s Food and Garden Waste and deliver to their own Waste Treatment Facility for treatment through a biological process to produce a compost, digestate or compost like output. The Council proposes to enter into Contract for an initial period of three years with the successful tenderer (Service Provider) with an extension provision of up to another three years (with 12 months intervals). Lot 1: The Contractor is required to transfer, treat, recover any outputs and dispose of any residues / rejects from the treatment of food and garden waste collected as part of the weekly kerbside collection service specifically: Monitor and manage the stock levels of Authority Materials at the Authority Waste Transfer Station; Arrange regular collections of Authority Materials from the Authority Waste Transfer Station in Old Wolverton, Milton Keynes; Deliver Authority Materials to a Waste Treatment Facility; Manage the storage, any pre-treatment, treatment, and post treatment of all Authority Materials at the Waste Treatment Facility; and Be responsible for the recovery of all process outputs and disposal of all process rejects and/or residues. For the avoidance of doubt this shall include the procurement of the end markets and onward haulage. The Contractor will be responsible for obtaining and maintaining all necessary planning permissions, environmental permits, and consents for the Waste Treatment Facility. The Contractor shall ensure that all Waste Treatment Facilities and Plant used in the delivery of this Service are always maintained and in good serviceable repair. Ownership of the Authority Materials will transfer to the Contractor once the Contractor has collected the Authority Materials from the Authority Waste Transfer Station