Five larger companies including the Cleansing Service Group, Donald Ward Ltd trading as Ward, Reconomy (UK), Safetykleen UK and WasteCare secured a place on the framework under a contract worth £2.5 million.
They are joined by six SMEs including Acorn Waste Management, Acumen Waste Services, ENVA England Specialist Waste, F&R Cawley, Greenzone Facilities Management and Red Industries (Brownhills).
The framework covers the collection and disposal of a number of types of hazardous wastes, including alkaline batteries, battery acid and waste electrical and electronic equipment, amongst others.
Originally established in 1981, ESPO is managed by six councils: Leicestershire county council, Lincolnshire county council, Cambridgeshire county council, Norfolk county council, Warwickshire county council, and Peterborough city council.
Framework
ESPO received 16 tenders for a place on the framework, including eight from SMEs.
A framework is an agreement with suppliers to establish terms governing contracts that may be awarded during the life of the agreement. A framework agreement is not likely to be a contract in itself, but an agreement about the terms and conditions that would apply to any order placed during its lifetime.
A contract award notice published towards the end of May says the agreement could be extended for up to 24 months.
ESPO
ESPO says it services more than 20,000 public sector customers across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland from its head office and distribution centre in Leicester.
These customers come from all areas of the public sector, including education, local authority and government, and the NHS and emergency services.
As an example of the kind of work ESPO does in the waste sector, plastic waste product manufacturer Straight Manufacturing provided Winchester council with 50,000 black recycling boxes under a framework in August 2019 (see letsrecycle.com story).
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