Veolia Environmental Services, which previously ran all the council's waste and recycling operations, launched and then withdrew two legal challenges earlier this year over the Essex authority's decision to operate the service itself.
The council had claimed that taking the collections service, which also covers 40 bring sites, in-house would save it around £2 million per year from its operational costs (see letsrecycle.com story), but, had the High Court challenge proven successful it was anticipated that Thurrock would have been ordered to start the procurement process for the contract again.
Veolia
Thurrock let the collections contract as one of seven lots covering all aspects of its waste and recycling services in April 2009 and, despite missing out on the collection deal, Veolia was awarded a £5.3 million deal to manage Thurrock's two household waste and recycling centres, a £700,000 contract for composting services and an £800,000 deal for waste disposal services, which covers kerbside bulky waste that cannot be recycled or reused.
Speaking to letsrecycle.com, Veolia declined to comment on securing these deals.
Elsewhere, Essex-based Nordic Recycling was awarded the council's £1.3 million contract for materials recycling facility services and waste services firm Verdant Group, which is based in Kent, secured a £2.7 million contract for in-vessel composting and anaerobic digestion of organic waste collected by the local authority.
The award of the contracts comes two months after Thurrock named Waste Recycling Group its residual waste disposal contractor, handing the Northamptonshire-based waste management company a £21 million, seven-year deal to handle around 35,000 tonnes of residual waste each year (see letsrecycle.com story).
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