Market engagement for a Reception, Haulage and Reuse and Recycling Centres Contract

ELWA is responsible for the disposal of the Local Authority Collected Waste (LACW) collected by (or on behalf of) the London Boroughs of Barking and Dagenham, Havering, Newham and Redbridge (the Constituent Councils) and to arrange for places to be provided at which persons resident in its area may deposit their household waste and for the disposal of waste so deposited. ELWA is also responsible for the disposal of commercial waste collected by the Constituent Councils. These services are currently delivered via an Integrated Waste Management Services Contract (IWMS Contract), which was signed in December 2002 with ELWA Ltd (the IWMS Contractor) and is operated by Renewi (the IWMS Operator). The IWMS Contract includes infrastructure for mechanical biological treatment, waste transfer, and Reuse and Recycling Centres (RRCs) for use by the general public. The IWMS Operator also has a number of sub-contractors for services, including the provision of material recovery facilities for mixed recycling, offtake of materials, transfer and RRC facilities. The IWMS Contract expires in December 2027. Further details on ELWA and the services it provides can be found at https://eastlondonwaste.gov.uk/. ELWA and the Constituent Councils produced a Joint Strategy for East London’s Resources and Waste (Joint Strategy) for the period from 2027 to 2057, which was ratified by all five authorities in February 2022. Further details on the Joint Strategy can be found at https://eastlondonwaste.gov.uk/jointstrategy/. Following the ratification of the Joint Strategy, ELWA set up the Procurement and Contract Expiry Programme (PACE Programme) to manage the complex work associated with: • Contract Expiry and Transition: the activities required to manage the expiry and demobilisation of the IWMS Contract; • Future Services Delivery: the activities required to ensure that new services arrangements are in place at the expiry of the IWMS Contract so that services continue to be delivered without interruption. The Outline Business Case (OBC), part of the Future Services Delivery component of the PACE Programme, was then produced to determine the preferred service delivery model for the new services at the expiry of the IWMS Contract. The OBC concluded that the proposed approach to procuring the services to replace the IWMS Contract will be a disaggregated service delivery model with new contracts for the following waste services: Residual Waste Disposal (including Bulky Waste and Street Cleansing); Waste Reception, Haulage and Reuse and Recycling Centres; Treatment of Garden Waste; Reprocessing of Dry Recycling; and Treatment of Food Waste. The Authority formally approved the OBC at the Authority Meeting on 29 September 2023. Part 1 of the report is available at this link: Agenda-Item-04 September 2023.pdf (eastlondonwaste.gov.uk). To inform the development of these contracts, ELWA will be carrying out market engagement exercises. The procurement for the Residual Waste Contract is currently underway and this preliminary market engagement seeks to engage with market operators who may wish to participate in the procurement of the RHRRC Contract. Consequently, ELWA invites you confirm in writing that your organisation wishes to participate in a meeting with ELWA and its advisers to discuss key topics set out in the Market Operator Briefing Note and any further topics that you wish to raise.