Collection, transport and disposal of hospital waste

Description

HealthTrust Europe is seeking to establish a framework agreement for the provision of total waste management which has five lots. This will include: • Lot 1: Domestic/Recycling Waste, • Lot 2: Clinical Waste, • Lot 3: Reusable Sharps Waste, • Lot 4: Confidential Waste, • Lot 5: Total Waste Management. HTE proposes to enter into the framework agreement for a maximum period of 4 years with the Successful Tenderer (Successful Tenderer), being an initial 2 years period and the option to extend by two periods of 12 months each, after the initial period. Tenderers for this lot are required to be able to do the following: The collection, transportation, disposal and recycling of domestic, general and miscellaneous waste (mixed municipal waste from healthcare and related sources that is the same as or similar to, black-bag domestic waste from domestic households), may also include food waste, non-hazardous waste and offensive/hygiene waste. This will be broken down into the following categories: • general waste, • recycling (for glass, metal, cardboard, plastics and similar recyclable waste systems where necessary), • food waste, • WEEE waste, • bulk waste. Could also include a provision for a compactor. TErms and conditions/activity based income (ABI) The terms and conditions of this framework agreement and any resulting call-off contract is appended to the ITT. These terms include provisions requiring the payment by the supplier of an ABI management charge in consideration of the award of this framework agreement, the management and administration by HTE of the overall contract structure and associated documentation, as well as the requirement to submit regular management information to HTE. Tenderer's for this lot are required to be able to do the following: The collection, transportation and disposal of clinical waste, may include: healthcare waste, infectious waste, pathological waste, pharmaceutical waste, offensive/hygiene waste, hazardous and non-hazardous healthcare waste. May include the supply of sharps containers. Clinical waste is defined as: (a) ‘...any waste which consists wholly or partly of human or animal tissue, blood or other body fluids, excretions, drugs or other pharmaceutical products, swabs or dressings, syringes, needles or other sharp instruments, being waste which unless rendered safe may prove hazardous to any person coming into contact with it; and (b) any other waste arising from medical, nursing, dental, veterinary, pharmaceutical or similar practice, investigation, treatment, care, teaching or research or the collection of blood for transfusion, being waste which may cause infection to any person coming into contact with it.’ (Clause, 4.7 and 4.8, Environment and sustainability Health Technical Memorandum 7-1: Safe management of healthcare waste.) Clinical waste will be described in within the following categories: • hazardous waste, • pharmaceutical waste, • sharps waste. Tenderers for this lot are required to be able to do the following: The storage, collection, treatment and return of sharps waste containers generated by public sector organisations. Used containers are treated and reassembled in order to be re-used. The tenderer must include an education of using this system. Tenderers for this lot are required to be able to do the following: The storage, collection and final disposal of confidential waste generated by public sector organisations. This includes (but is not exclusive to) the following: confidential waste paper, carbon paper, coloured paper, computer paper, fax paper, glossy paper, invoice paper, laser printouts, ledger paper, general stationary, NCR paper, transparencies and also other confidential non-paper items such as X-rays and imaging reports. This is to include waste minimisation and incorporated recycling systems. To include on-site and off-site shredding services. The tenderer must be able to carry out a start to end process of the collection and destruction of confidential waste compliantly and securely. Tenderers for this lot are required to be able to do the following: The storage, collection and final disposal of waste generated by public sector organisations for the following types of waste: — domestic/recycling waste management, — clinical waste management, — reusable sharps waste management, — confidential waste management. Provision of a total waste management solution, to include a one-stop-shop solution for the collection, transportation and disposal of an authority's waste. To include audit services, waste management services and contract management services.