Strategic Waste Management

Tender description

Southern Water are seeking suppliers for the provision of planned and reactive intersite liquid sludge tankering, planned and reactive intersite raw sludge cake transfer, and onsite tankering services such as wet well cleaning, tank cleaning, tank emptying, jetting, lagoon cleaning, hazardous waste disposal, chemical disposal, and emergency incident response including street works. Other services include General waste collection and disposal, planned and reactive grit and screenings collection and disposal, fly tipping & hazardous waste collection and disposal, reactive response to and management of pollution events etc. Additionally, the marketing, sale, transport and, disposal of digested sewage sludge cake (Biosolids) is included. Elements of the services are required 24 hours, 7 days a week. Southern Water has sites across Sussex, Hampshire, Kent and the Isle of Wight. Note, the exact lots are TBC Lot 1: Planned and Reactive Tankering & Waste Services Activities include Liquid waste management arising from water and wastewater operational processes such as: -Planned Intersite Sludge Tankering- collection, transportation and disposal of Liquid waste between SW facilities, and where necessary to third party facilities -Planned Non-Routine Tankering- Additional tankering requirements for scheduled works on a semi-regular basis e.g. wet well cleaning, sludge line jetting, tank cleans etc. -Reactive tankering in the case of emergencies 24 hours per day, 365 days per year -Other services: Use of Skips and Roros (e.g. for transport of dewatered sludge cake), General waste, Grit and Screenings (collection and transport), Fly tipping, hazardous waste collection and other activities related to the management of waste, e.g. traffic management, sandbags, welfare units, in response to pollution events Note some of the above activities may be separated into a different lot at the time of the final tender pack release Lot 2: Digested Cake Biosolids Offsite Activities conducted comprise of: Planned haulage of up to 300,000 tonnes/yr of Biosolids and up to 10,000 tones/yr of water clarification sludges to suitable agricultural outlets Marketing, sales, in-field operations (e.g. stockpiling, spreading, civilization, soil sampling, and onsite operations (e.g. container management) Some services may have a reactive 24/7 requirement Lot 3: Novel Waste Disposal/Brokerage Requirement for waste brokers or specialist waste disposers to manage the disposal of "novel wastes" arising from the water and wastewater treatment operation e.g. sewage waste mixed with petrochemicals, spent chemical containers, asbestos waste, out of specification sludge waste. Lot 4: Waste Ancillary Services Southern Water may require ancillary services to support the deployment of tankers and for other core waste services. These services are referenced in previous lots. It is to be determined whether any or all services in this lot will be combined with a previous lot at the time of the final tender pack release. Service include: Use of Skips and Roros (e.g. for transport of cake), General waste, Grit and Screenings (collection and transport), Fly tipping, hazardous waste collection, and includes activities used to manage pollution events such as traffic management, sandbags, welfare units, lighting towers, portaloos, scaffolding, road sweepers etc.