Officials in the city’s environment department are currently analysing three submissions for the contract which starts in August 2001. They have come from Onyx, Focsa and Waste Recycling Group and will see the successful firm taking on a range of environmental services including waste management and recycling for the whole city which has a population of 531,000.
A key part of the bid will be explaining how the tender would provide the authority with the best value forward view for the city in the light of the landfill directive and other legislation, explained contracts manager David Calvert.
But, he added that the city council has always said that the contracts form part of a market-testing exercise and in the end no contractor may be appointed.
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