LB Hillingdon - The Provision of Environmental Specialist Cleaning Services

The London Borough of Hillingdon provides circa 700 dog fouling bins in its parks and open spaces and on the highways, throughout the borough, which require emptying and cleaning each week.

All the dog fouling bins are;

(a) required to be emptied over 2 consecutive days each week.

(b) not to be emptied and cleaned on a weekend.

The schedule of emptying and cleaning of the dog fouling bins will be a pre-determined schedule provided to the supplier, prior to contract commencement, by the London Borough of Hillingdon Representative.

The London Borough of Hillingdon currently has circa 70 residential properties that require clinical/offensive waste to be collected from and disposed of accordingly. No guarantee is given to the number of properties requiring collection or to the number of bags collected at each therefore may increase or decrease.

The supplier shall be expected to collect and dispose of the following;

(a) Drugs or other pharmaceutical products

(b) Swabs or dressings

(c) Incontinence pads/wipes

(d) Used medical products i.e., dialysis tubing.

The London Borough of Hillingdon has 11 public toilets that require cleaning once per day along with low level maintenance.

The supplier shall be expected to clean and carry out low level maintenance at the end of each day;

(a) 7 days a week including bank holidays with the exception of Christmas Day and Easter Sunday

(b) After locking each public toilet at 6pm.

The supplier shall be expected to remove, transport and dispose of dead animal carcasses from Harlington Road Depot;

London Borough of Hillingdon

Harlington Road Depot

128 Harlington Road

Hillingdon Middlesex UB8 3EU

The dead animal carcasses will be stored in a freezer, in a frozen state and un-bagged, at the Harlington Road Depot until removal.

1.3The supplier will be responsible for loading the carcasses from the freezer for onward transportation.

The London Borough of Hillingdon currently requires a service for the safe removal of asbestos that has been reported as fly tipped waste and or requires collection from residential properties from within the borough.

The supplier shall be expected to safely remove the reported asbestos and arrange for the disposal via a licensed facility. The vehicles used in the removal of asbestos shall be of a standard suitable to transport asbestos safely and securely to the licensed facility.

The supplier shall ensure its employees who are tasked with the removal of asbestos shall be adequately trained i.e., ADR trained.

The London Borough of Hillingdon wishes to engage the services of a supplier who has the necessary expertise, equipment and staff to collect and process waste materials from land in the open air (“the service”) in full compliance with current statutory regulations and good practice for waste management and customer service.

The service is required when the recipient of the statutory notice does not comply, and the London Borough of Hillingdon undertakes the work (“works in default”) and re charges the notice recipient. At present, circa 25% of statutory notices served require works in default.

Requirements

The supplier shall clear, collect waste materials from commercial and private dwellings within the London Borough of Hillingdon as and when works in default is required. The addresses of the premises will be notified to the supplier in advance, via email by the London Borough of Hillingdon. Additional information: The proposed contract will be for a period of two (2) years with an option to extend for a further two (2) years , subject to the requirements of the service and the satisfactory performance of the supplier.