The contracts, which will see the chosen waste firms treat municipal food waste and green waste collected from homes by Aylesbury Vale, Chiltern, South Buckinghamshire and Wycombe district councils.
One or more successful bidders will treat separately collected food and green waste from the councils.
The tender has been divided into four lots, with each interim treatment contract lasting for an initial period of two years, with an option to extend for a further period of three years with 12-month intervals.
The first two lots are for treating food and green waste collected by Aylesbury Vale district council, worth an estimated £350,000 and £250,000 for 2016/17 respectively.
The third lots consists of a £400,000 treatment contract for food waste collected by Chiltern, South Bucks and Wycombe district councils from the kerbside.
The fourth lot, worth an estimated £1.2 million will see the successful bidder treat waste collected at seven HWRCs across the these three councils – and will also be responsible for the management of the council’s High Heavens transfer station and will provide a price for the bulking of food waste at the facility.
Contracts
The tender process follows previous two-year interim contracts for Chiltern, South Bucks and Wycombe district council areas which were divided up between Agrivert and Countrystyle Group in August 2013 (see letsrecycle.com story).
The agreement saw Countrystyle receive 30,000 tonnes of mixed food and green waste per year for treatment at the firm’s Ridham in-vessel composting (IVC) facility in Kent or its open windrow plant in Hampshire. Additionally, 10,000 tonnes of food waste was sent to Agivert’s anaerobic digestion plant in Wallingford, Oxfordshire.
Martin Dickman, director of environment services for Buckinghamshire county council, confirmed that the council would only be seeking treatment solutions that involved open-windrow or anaerobic digestion facilities – and would not be considering IVC plants following the roll out of separate food waste and green waste collections across the districts.
Businesses will have until July 27 to submit their proposals via the South East Business Portal with one or more successful bidders to be announced in the coming months.
Register for free to comment