Description
Derry City and Strabane District Council and Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council each wish to procure a separate contract for the provision of residual waste treatment services .
The Authorities each have a statutory duty under the Waste and Contaminated Land (Northern Ireland) Order 1997 No. 2778 (N.I. 19) (Part II Articles 20(1)(a)(b) and 20(2)) to arrange for the collection of household, commercial and industrial waste.
The Authorities are also required under the 1997 Order (Part II, Article 25(1)(a)) to make arrangements for the disposal of any waste collected or removed under Article 20 of the 1997 Order.
This tender comprises 2 lots Lot 1: Derry City and Strabane District Council Lot 2: Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council Each Lot concerns a contract for the collection, acceptance, treatment, processing, re-use, recovery, recycling and disposal of certain waste material collected by Derry City and Strabane District Council or on its behalf.
This waste in question shall comprise of comingled compacted and un-compacted open skip waste from recycling centres, kerbside collected residual (black bin) waste, bulky waste, indiscriminate dumping, street cleaning (to include litter picks and litter bins, but not exclusively) and commercial waste collected or on behalf of the Council and deposited at its nominated collection points.
In each Contract Year, the appointed Contractor shall ensure that it is able to collect, accept, treat, process, re-use, recover, recycle and/or dispose of up to: 44,000 tonnes of such waste from Derry City and Strabane District Council at its Principal Facilities, however there shall be no guaranteed minimum tonnage provided under the Contract.
30,000 tonnes of such waste from Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council at its Principal Facilities, however there shall be no guaranteed minimum tonnage provided under the Contract.
These Contracts will form an important part of each Council’s forward-looking strategy to manage waste in its area by reducing the amount of waste sent to landfill and increasing recycling rates.
Appointed Contractors will be required to ensure that Contract Waste is recycled, reused, recovered and/or treated in recognition of the waste hierarchy before landfilled in order to maximise diversion.
For the avoidance of doubt, one contract will be awarded by Derry City and Strabane District Council for Lot 1 described above and one contract will be awarded by Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council for Lot 2 described above.
Derry City and Strabane District Council shall have no liability in respect of the Competition for the Lot 2 Contract; Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council shall have no liability in respect of the Competition for the Lot 1 Contract.
Please refer to CfT document for further detail