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Published 26 Jan 2022, 17:31 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

Energy From Waste Facility Operation and Maintenance

Official notice

Authority: Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council (Local council)·Consortium: 2 public authorities

ServicesCompetitive dialogueSME suitable
Published estimate£40,000,000exc. VAT · 1 value update
Submissions closed 24 Jun 2022awarded 13 Feb 2023
Awarded to Urbaser Environmental Limited

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council is seeking to enter into arrangements with a suitable Contractor for the operation and maintenance of its Energy from Waste (EfW) plant, the transportation of waste deposited at the Site to Delivery Points, and the recovery of energy including the generation, export and sale of electricity. The Council intend to let a contract to provide time for it to develop a longer term strategy for the EfW facility. The successful Tenderer will be able to input into the development of this longer term strategy (without any contractual obligations).

  • Recurrence: 4 years

CPV: Refuse and waste related services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · value published
Lot #1Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council (DMBC) has a legal obligation under the…AwardedRenewalPublished value£40,000,000

Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council (DMBC) has a legal obligation under the Environmental Protection Act (EPA) 1990, Part II, Section 51 as a "Function of waste disposal authorities" to arrange for the disposal of the controlled waste collected in its area by the waste collection authorities.The household residual waste collection services are undertaken by DMBC and collected on a weekly basis, at the kerbside by compaction vehicles, ready to deliver for disposal. The current collection service is under review as to the frequency of collections and the wastes collected e.g. weekly food waste collection, charged fortnightly green waste collection, fortnightly dry comingled and fibre (paper/card) collections, and fortnightly/3 weekly/4weekly residual waste collection. DMBC fulfils this residual waste disposal requirement by the provision of an Energy from Waste plant (EfW), located at Lister Road, Dudley DY2 8JW. The site is in the central part of the Borough and is currently operated by a Contractor on behalf of DMBC.DMBC is seeking to enter into arrangements with a suitable Contractor for the operation and maintenance of its EfW plant, the transportation of waste deposited at the site to Delivery Points, and the recovery of energy including the generation, export and sale of electricity.

Delivery: West Midlands · Lister Road, Dudley DY2 8JW
Extensions: 3 years with the option to extend (1+1)Second stage: up to 5 candidates invited to tenderVariant bids: not allowed

What it takes to win
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How this buyer will score bids.

The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).

Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add more
How bids were scored
Quality: 40%Price: 60%
Published sub-criteria (2)
  • Quality: 40%
  • Cost: 60%
Published award criteria (2)
  • Quality: 40
  • Cost: 60
Successive reduction
Candidates will be reduced successively across stages
What this means for your bid
  • Price carries 60 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 6 points. This one is won on the number: sharpen the price before polishing the prose.

Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record · publisher note attached
Procedure method
Competitive dialogue
Legal basis
CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
Procurement category
Services
Notice status
Awarded
Procurement threshold
Unspecified in notice
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Yes (GPA)
Recurring procurement
Yes · 4 years
First published
26 Jan 2022, 17:31 GMT
Last source update
22 Feb 2023, 12:56 GMT
Authority reference
C208/2022
FTS notice number
2023/S 000-005292
Classification (CPV)
Refuse and waste related services
Delivery area
West Midlands (UKG36)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-030fc6 Find a Tender
Contract terms
Electronic trading
e-invoicing allowed · electronic payment

Publisher note: All interested parties are invited to contact the Authority at the above mentioned address.At this stage, this is purely a market engagement exercise. Any subsequent procurement will be advertised separately and all organisations wanting to participate will need to respond to the contract notice advertising the procurement when this is published.The responses received during the market engagement exercise will not be considered in any future evaluation process as part of the formal procurement process but will be used to inform and finalise the invitation to tender documentation.

How it was run

Official notice
Run through: In-tend · Who buys & how to bid on In-tend
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Access & registration note: Free · one account per buying organisation's portal · reCAPTCHA on signup
Submission deadline
24 Jun 2022, 12:00 BST
Submission channel
{"electronicSubmission","written"}
Accepted languages
en
Detailed submission instructions & authority contactsFrom official release

Timeline

31 Mar 2022 → 22 Feb 2023 · 4 dates
  1. Next notice expected
    31 Mar 2022, 00:00 BST
  2. Submission deadline
    24 Jun 2022, 12:00 BST
  3. Invitations to tender expected
    1 Jul 2022, 00:00 BST
  4. Notice published
    22 Feb 2023, 12:56 GMT

Notice history

7 events · 4 releases on Find a Tender · since 4 May 2022
  1. Published value published: £40,000,000
    4 May 2022, 13:39 BST
  2. Status changed to active
    4 May 2022, 13:39 BST
  3. Procurement method changed
    4 May 2022, 13:39 BST
  4. Deadline published: 14 Jun 2022, 12:00 BST
    4 May 2022, 13:39 BST
  5. Buyer details updated
    4 May 2022, 13:39 BST
  6. Deadline moved to 24 Jun 2022, 12:00 BST
    9 Jun 2022, 15:28 BST
    +10 days · was 14 Jun 2022, 12:00 BST
  7. Status changed to complete
    22 Feb 2023, 12:56 GMT
Published amendments (1 · 1 deadline change)
WhenWhatBeforeAfterShift
—DeadlineIV.2.214 Jun 202224 Jun 2022+10 d
—DateIV.2.31 Jul 20228 Jul 2022+7 d

1 amendment published without a description.

Routine re-releases (4)
  • 2022-01: 1 release · 26 Jan 2022

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast
Awards 1
Awarded value £9,000,0001 contract exc. VAT
Bids received 41 from SMEs
Contracts signed 1latest 13 Feb 2023
Awarded toValueDateStatus
Urbaser Environmental LimitedOperation and Maintenance of the Energy from Waste Facility£9,000,000 †—Awarded

Contracts

Bid statistics published by the authority

BidsSMEVCSEValid bid range
4bids · 4 electronic1——

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

2 public bodies on the notice

Dudley MBC

Contracting authorityLocal CouncilRegional or local authorityGeneral public services Council House, Priory Road, Dudley, West Midlands, DY1 1HFContact name, email, phone

Consortium members and other public bodies

Dispute resolution & review bodies

  • High Court of England and WalesReview body London

Bidders & participating suppliers

1 commercial party on the notice

Official documents & specifications (2)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Tender pack and attachments

  • Economic and financial selection criteriatenderEconomic and financial selection criteria
  • Technical selection criteriatenderTechnical selection criteria