Serco Environmental Services welcomes £45m contract wins

The contracts – which in total value £45 million – have been awarded throughout 2016 and include new and extended arrangements with Woking, Charnwood, Canterbury city and Milton Keynes councils.

Robin Davies, Serco’s business development director for Environmental Services, said the new deals provided a “very strong pipeline” of future contract opportunities in the sector.

Recycling

Charnwood borough council has awarded Serco a three-year contract extension to provide waste recycling and street cleansing services, valued at £15 million.

The East Midlands-based council had awarded a seven-year contract to Serco to collect waste and recyclables from households in 2009, switching to a commingled recycling system in the process (see letsrecycle.com story).

Residents in the borough are provided with a green wheelie bin for glass, cans, plastics, paper and cardboard. A brown bin for garden waste, and a black 180-litre wheeled bin for residual waste.

This latest arrangement extends the company’s existing relationship with the council to 10 years, with further extensions of up to four years possible under the contract through mutual agreement.

Milton Keynes

Elsewhere, Milton Keynes, Serco has been awarded a £4 million, six-year contract to maintain local play areas and equipment – supplementing its existing arrangement with the council for waste and recycling collections, street cleaning and landscape maintenance.

And in Canterbury in Kent and Woking in Surrey, Serco has extended its landscape services contract by a further five years to January 2023, valued at £12 million in total.

‘Testament’

Mr Davies said: “These important new contract extensions and awards are testament to all the hard work undertaken by our local teams who are both committed and work tirelessly to provide first class environmental services to our local authority clients.

“The news also demonstrates the strategic value, of Serco’s Environmental Services business to the wider the company, we have a very strong pipeline of future contract opportunities and look forward to further growing our presence in this sector.”