Operation of a refuse site

Tender description

The Council has led a procurement for the Hertfordshire County Council (the “Council”) for the provision of Bulking, Transfer and Waste Haulage services for Local Authority Collected Waste together with the management of 2 transfer stations. The Council is responsible for arranging for the disposal of all Local Authority Collected Waste (LACW) collected by the ten Hertfordshire Waste Collection Authorities (WCAs) under their duties and powers defined in the Environmental Protection Act 1990 together with waste collected at Household Waste Recycling Centres(HWRCs). This contract is for the management and operation of the Council owned Waterdale Transfer Station (which serves central, southern and western Hertfordshire), the management and operation of a transfer station to serve northern Hertfordshire (which will be leased to the Contractor by a district Council) and the Haulage of Approved Waste from a WCA depot directly to the point of disposal. The services will also include the bulking of waste, handling clinical waste and ancillary services. In 2016/17 Waterdale handled approximately 165 000 tonnes of residual LACW from seven WCAs and seventeen HWRCs. It also provided a bulking facility for approximately 18 000 tonnes of dry recyclable material. The northern transfer station received approximately 21 000 tonnes of LACW. The Council looked to procure a service that offered the Council optimum value for money. The contract period for this contract will be for an initial term of seven (7) years with an option, exercisable at the Council’s sole and absolute discretion, to extend the Contract any number of times to a total period of a further seven (7) years at the Council’s discretion.