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title: "Operation and Maintenance of a Proposed Regional Wood Reprocessing Facility at Silent Valley, Blaenau Gwent."
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# Operation and Maintenance of a Proposed Regional Wood Reprocessing Facility at Silent Valley, Blaenau Gwent.

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/operation-and-maintenance-of-a-proposed-regional-wood-reprocessing-facility-at-silent-vall-ocds-h6vhtk-032549). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Service Manager Commercial & Procurement: "Operation and Maintenance of a Proposed Regional Wood Reprocessing Facility at Silent Valley, Blaenau Gwent.". Published status: planned. Planned Pipeline Value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** PLANNED (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [Service Manager Commercial & Procurement](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/service-manager-commercial-procurement-GB-FTS-47603)
- **Planned Pipeline Value:** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Not published
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Refuse recycling services
- **Delivery Location:** UKL16
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-032549`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/operation-and-maintenance-of-a-proposed-regional-wood-reprocessing-facility-at-silent-vall-ocds-h6vhtk-032549#tl-md)

## Description
1. The purpose of this Prior Information Notice (PIN) is to alert potential suppliers to an opportunity in relation to the Local Authorities’ requirements for the Operation and Maintenance (O&M) of a proposed regional wood reprocessing facility at the Silent Valley waste management site near Ebbw Vale in Blaenau Gwent.
2. The Authority is keen to explore the commercial viability of outsourcing the O&M of the facility over a term of up to 10 years, as opposed to the option of delivering the operations “in-house” as a public sector partnership.
3. The outsourced O&M scope may indicatively consist of the following services:
- Day-to-day processing of the waste wood feedstock into a specification wood chip suitable for panel board.
- Operation of a process-line configuration of plant and machinery;
- Manning the picking station (to extract contaminants from the feedstock).
- Responsibility for meeting required Performance Outputs.
- Responsibility for meeting prescribed Quality thresholds.
- Responsibility for the management of all Health and Safety aspects.
- Management of Site personnel.
- Traffic Management and vehicle loading/unloading operations.
- Procurement of Fuel and other consumables to operate the plant and equipment.
- Responsibility for managing the Environmental Permit and Fire Prevention Plan Permits;
- Interface management with adjacent permit holder(s) on the site at Silent Valley.
4. The overall objective is to create a modern and environmentally sustainable wood reprocessing facility that will contribute towards the net zero carbon agenda.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** planned
- **CPV codes:** 90514000
- **Delivery regions:** UKL

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F007855-2022)
- **Last Source Update:** 2022-03-23T12:13:07.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-29T13:51:17.839Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-032549