Donarbon Ltd, Focsa Services (UK) Ltd, Shanks Group Plc and Waste Recycling Group Ltd were picked from a pre-qualification list of eight companies, and will now be asked for detailed proposals for the 25-year contract.
”With thousands of homes due to be built in Cambridgeshire we must have the correct facilities in place to cope with the current and future tonnes of rubbish.“
– Cllr John Reynolds, Cambridgeshire CC
These bids, which will include details of proposed technologies and sites for waste treatment, will be evaluated by the council in early 2006. The contract likely to be awarded by early 2007.
The contract is backed by 35 million worth of Private Finance Initiative credits from the government and could be worth as much as 600 million. It should see new waste facilities beginning to come online in 2009 to reduce the 200,000 tonnes of waste currently heading for landfill each year.
Population
One of the key aspects of the contract will be to cope with the needs of a rapidly increasing population in the county – more than 56,000 new homes are expected to be built in Cambridgeshire by 2016.
Cambridgeshire county councillor John Reynolds, cabinet member for environment and community services, said: “With thousands of homes due to be built in Cambridgeshire we must have the correct facilities in place to cope with the current and future tonnes of rubbish which will be generated.
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“This will be one of the largest projects ever undertaken by the county council and we will be scrutinising very closely what these companies have to offer,” Cllr Reynolds added.
The council has said it is still “open-minded” about the type of waste recycling and treatment facilities required, “provided they achieve the objective of maximising recycling and composting and do not pose an unacceptable risk to health or the environment”.
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