Treatment & Disposal of Residual Waste; and Management of Household Waste Recycling Centre Services

To accept and treat residual municipal waste collected by the Authority including (without limitation) kerbside collected, bulky waste, household waste recycling centre waste, fly-tipping and persistent organic pollutants.

To operate Brackmills Waste Transfer Station as a Delivery Point for residual waste, and to arrange for the haulage of waste from Brackmills and two other Delivery Points within West Northamptonshire to the treatment destinations. The location of delivery points may change during the term.

The contract is an exclusive arrangement for all in scope contract waste subject to certain rights of the Authority and exclusions under the contract (including relating to performance). No guarantee is given on tonnage or composition.

At contract notice and considering the existing service scope, options to expand service scope and the maximum term, the Authority estimated a total valuation at £162,000,000 with an estimated average spend per annum over the full term of approximately £10,000,000 (not to be taken as the budget for year 1 of delivery). The estimated annual spend was based on forecast tonnages and estimated gate fees. The actual spend will be dependent on tendered gate fees, inflation and actual tonnages

The contract will have a term of fifteen (15) years from 1 April 2025 with an Authority only break option at the end of year 10.

To manage the household waste recycling centre (HWRC) services, currently provided at 6 locations within West Northamptonshire, and arrange for the treatment of waste collected from the sites, with the exception of residual waste which will be treated under a separate contract. The services also include maximising the capture and resale of reusable materials collected at the HWRCs and via the bulky kerbside service. The Authority reserved the right to remove the reuse element during the procurement but did not exercise this right.

Not guarantee is given on tonnage or composition.

At contract notice and considering the existing service scope, options to expand service scope and the maximum term, the Authority estimated a total valuation of £75,000,000 with an estimated average spend per annum over the full term of £5,000,000 (not to be taken as the budget for year 1 of delivery). At contract award, as noted above it is not possible to give a fixed contract value but the award is within scope of the estimated value of the procurement.

The contract will have a term of fifteen (15) years from 1 April 2025 with an Authority only break option at the end of year 10.

Lot 3 has been included as an optional Lot to enable a bidder to identify the financial saving or discount that would apply if they are awarded both services. It is not intended as an option for providing a combined service and the Authority would still award two separate contracts. For the avoidance of doubt, the Authority has not designed this procurement with the intention that the same bidder must be successful for both services.

Bidders should note that they may submit for one or both of Lots 1 and 2. A bidder may only submit for Lot 3 where they have submitted for Lot 1 and Lot 2 or they have submitted for only one of Lot 1 or Lot 2 but are submitting a joint bid for Lot 3 with another bidder who has bid for the other of Lot 1/Lot 2.

Further detail on the approach to managing the Lots during the procurement process is set out in the procurement documents. Final award will be made in accordance with the award criteria and evaluation approach set out in the procurement documents. If Lot 3 is awarded, then Lots 1 and 2 will not be awarded (and vice versa).

The service scope for Lot 3 is as detailed for Lots 1 and 2 above.

Considering the existing service scope of the procurement, the options to expand service scope and the maximum term, the Authority has estimated the total procurement valuation to be:

Lot 3: Treatment & Disposal of Residual Waste and Operation of Household Waste Recycling Centres - £237,000,000 (being the combined value of Lots 1 and 2).

From that total valuation the estimated average spend per annum over the full term is approximately:

Lot 3: Treatment & Disposal of Residual Waste and Operation of Household Waste Recycling Centres - £15,000,000

(note: the average spend in the above paragraph should not be taken as the budget value for year 1 of delivery)

All values exclude VAT and indexation.

The contract will have a term of fifteen (15) years from 1 April 2025 with an Authority only break option at the end of year 10.