The Merseyside Waste Disposal Authority has further reduced the number of bidders for its two waste contracts which have a combined value of £3 billion.
The list of nine firms previously short-listed for the “Resource and Recovery PFI contract” has been cut down to just four final bidders. Two firms are to bid for the second contract which includes CA sites and materials recycling facilities.
Those left in the running for the resource and recovery contract, which includes development of an energy recovery facility for residual waste, are: SITA UK; Shanks Group; energy firm Covanta; and the Resource from Waste Alliance – made up of water firm United Utilities, property management company Land Securities and Trillium.
Now, the four contenders for the contract – which has been awarded £90 million of PFI funding by the government – will be expected to submit their detailed solutions to the MWDA for evaluation.
The authority then plans to call for final tenders in August 2009, with a contract award expected in January 2010
SITA UK is also still in the running for the second contract, which involves the management of all of the region's household waste recycling centres, transfer stations and materials recycling facilities and the development of new sites.
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