The contract, currently held by Suez, will run for an initial three years with the option to extend by a further three years. It has been valued at £2.7 million per year, totally £16 million over six years.
The deal will include the transportation of wastes and recyclables from Lancashire’s HWRC network to existing disposal facilities.
This will include residual waste and asbestos, and materials that can be recovered such as green waste, paper and card, glass, cans, plastics, ferrous metals, mattresses and hardcore.
Lancashire will now begin official procurement for the contract shortly, after its cabinet approved plans to procure the contract on 7 April. Its existing contract with Suez expires in March 2023.
Value
The council said it will continue to fund the contract from the Waste Service revenue budget.
It can either be let in three lots by area – Eastern, Northern, Southern – or as a whole.
Currently, there are 16 HWRCs across Lancashire.
Bids will be possible to submit for each individual lot or for all three of them together. The outcome is dependent on which model offers the council the best value.
Sustainability
The project will be evaluated on financial criteria based on transport costs (90%) and social value requirements (10%). A proportion of the latter percentage will be allocated to environmental sustainability initiatives.
Bidders will also be required to provide a “carbon reduction plan to confirm their commitment to achieving net zero by 2050”. They will be expected to set out the environmental management measures in place and utilise them during the performance of the contract.
Under its current contract with Suez, Lancashire county council’s recycling rate in 2020/21 was 44.6%.
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