Stale Pre-tender

Request for Information (RFI) - Alternatives to Plastic Bags / Bin Liners

Details

Topic
Luggage, saddlery, sacks and bags
Published
25 March 2025

Tender description

North Ayrshire Council (“NAC”) are looking for information on alternatives to plastic bags / bin liners to reduce NAC’s single use plastic. NAC’s Building Services team currently use plastic bags daily when picking up materials for operations to uplift and/or deliver to sites. NAC’s cleaners utilise black plastic bin liners currently for all office and canteen bins. Please refer to the table in the attached questionnaire which details what NAC currently use and how much is used per year. NAC welcomes suggestions, proposal, innovation from suppliers, by completing the attached questionnaire and returning to murraythompson@north-ayrshire.gov.uk before close of business Friday 4th April 2025. Lot 1: North Ayrshire Council (“NAC”) are looking for information on alternatives to plastic bags / bin liners to reduce NAC’s single use plastic. The information received will determine whether or not a procurement is required.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Pre-tender published25 March 2025
    Current notice

About the buyer

North Ayrshire Council delivers local services from Irvine, and buys as a local authority through its own Corporate Procurement Unit. Much of its buying runs through Scotland Excel and Scottish Government frameworks, and Crown Commercial Service agreements. Neighbouring local authorities are frequent partners on shared, collaborative contracts across the region. Specialist officers manage spend across construction, social care, facilities management, ICT and utilities.

Over the past 5 years, most of North Ayrshire Council's contract awards have been in architectural and engineering services, IT services and repair and maintenance.

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