Consultants, local authorities and media groups are among the list of organisations to appear on a list of 51 contracts worth more than 25,000 each that the WRAP has awarded over the past six months.
The list, published on the government-funded bodys website this week, details the breadth and scale of the Waste & Resources Action Programmes (WRAP) work, ranging from commissioning research on the bulking and hauling of food waste to providing grant funding for local authority communications campaigns.
The exact value of each of the contracts is not specified but each one sits within a contract range which means based on letsrecycle.com analysis of the figures, between April and September 2011, WRAP agreed contracts of 25,000 or more worth anything between 2.4 million and 3.7 million.
However, 16 of these contracts entered into by WRAP between April and September 2011 are marked outside framework, and as such have not been let through the framework lists of contractors which WRAP has in place for many areas of its work.
These non-framework contracts range from awarding media giant EMAP a year-long deal in April 2011, worth between 50,000 and 74,999, to produce WRAPs materials pricing report, through to most recently appointing consultants European Economic Research to undertake work on end-of-waste materials a contract worth 25,000 to 49,999.
The most expensive deal to be awarded outside the framework is a contract awarded in July 2011 for Oxford-based sustainability consultants Best Foot Forward to produce a piece of work entitled Electricals Environmental and Cost Data Hotspots. This work runs between July 20 and October 28 2011 and is worth between 100,000 and 124,999.
Consultancies
The bulk of the contracts are with consultancies, with the consultancy awarded the most contract being global construction and property consultancy Cyril Sweett, which secured five contracts between April and September 2011.Those five deals could be worth between 175,000 and 299,995 based on the range of value for each of them.
Two of those feature among the nine contracts whose description specifically relates to WRAPs voluntary agreement for the construction sector, the Halving Waste to Landfill Commitment.
With nine of the 51 contracts specifically relating to WRAPs voluntary agreement for the construction industry, the Halving Waste to Landfill Commitment, this was the programme with the most contracts awarded in relation to it over the six month period.
These contracts were shared between consultancies including Davis Langdon, Cyril Sweett, TRL, Hyder Consulting and Capita Symonds.
Meanwhile, the single largest contract was awarded to Birmingham-based market research consultancy Databuild for a piece of work entitled Independent impact assessment and verification. For this, the company received between 225,000 and 249,999.
EfW
Recent changes have seen WRAP include energy from waste within its remit (see letsrecycle.com story) and two contracts agreed, each worth between 25,000 and 49,999, explicitly relate to this area.
Both are being undertaken by Oxfordshire-based planning consultancy RPS Planning and Development Ltd. The first, entitled Business case for small scale EfW plants, began on September 8 2011 and finished on January 16 2012, and the second, entitled Guidance materials for Energy from Waste (EfW), began on August 8 2011 and finished on October 31 2011.
Among the other areas of work on the list of contracts are a project to deliver a waste prevention communications training course, work on technologies for the recovery of WEEE, a project on UK reuse capacity and a project looking at opportunities for recovering and treatment photovoltaics (solar power) cells.
Councils
Both the local authorities which WRAP signed contracts with over the six month period received grant funding. One, the London borough of Islington, signed a contract for Direct Procurement Support from WRAPs ROTATE council programme worth between 25,000 and 49,999.
The other, the London borough of Redbridge, signed a deal worth between 50,000 and 74,999 for a project entitled Targeted communication: introduction of kerbside cardboard recycling.
The full details of organisations to be awarded contracts worth over 25,000 over the six month period is, in date order they were awarded:
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