Waste Management Services 2024

The Collection, transportation, disposal, and recycling of domestic, general, recycling and

miscellaneous waste (mixed municipal waste and related sources that is the same as, or like,

black-bag domestic waste from domestic households), may also include food waste, non-hazardous waste, and offensive/hygiene waste. This will be broken down into the following

categories:

General waste

Recycling (for glass, metal, cardboard, plastics, and similar recyclable waste systems where

necessary)

Food waste

WEEE waste

Bulk waste

The collection, transportation, and disposal of clinical waste may include healthcare waste,

infectious waste, sharps, pathological waste, pharmaceutical waste, offensive/hygiene

waste, hazardous and non-hazardous healthcare waste. May include the supply of sharps

containers.

Clinical Waste as defined under The Controlled Waste Regulations 1992 means:

"…any waste which consists wholly or partly of human or animal tissue, blood or other body

fluids, excretions, drugs or other pharmaceutical products, swabs or dressings, syringes,

needles or other sharp instruments, being waste which unless rendered safe may prove

hazardous to any person coming into contact with it, and;

any other waste arising from medical, nursing, dental, veterinary, pharmaceutical or similar

practice, investigation, treatment, care, teaching or research, or the collection of blood for

transfusion, being waste which may cause infection to any person coming into contact with

it."

The service to include storage, collection, treatment, and return of sharps waste containers designed for the disposal of sharp medical waste, such as needles, syringes, lancets, scalpels, contaminated glass slides and cover slips, razors, and blades.

The waste management process is expected to cover the collection, emptying and sanitization of the containers in a controlled environment. The return and replacement of the used containers after being treated, sanitised and reassembled to be re-used.

The storage, collection, and final disposal of confidential waste. This includes (but is not exclusive to) the following: confidential wastepaper, carbon paper, colored paper, computer paper, fax paper, glossy paper, invoice paper, laser printouts, ledger paper, general stationary, NCR paper, transparencies, and other confidential non-paper items such as x-rays and imaging reports. This is to include waste minimisation and incorporated recycling systems.

The service should include on-site and off-site shredding services.

The Tenderer must be able to carry out a start-to-end process of the collection and destruction of confidential waste compliantly and securely.

The storage, collection, and final disposal of waste generated by public sector organisations for the following types of waste:

Domestic, General and Recycling Waste Management

Clinical Waste Management

Reusable Sharps Waste Management

Confidential Waste Management

Provision of a total waste management solution, to include a one-stop-shop solution for the collection, transportation, and disposal of an Authority's waste. To include audit services, waste management services, and contract management services.

This lot is the provision of IT Asset Disposal service to ensure the end-of-life of IT equipment are managed responsibly, securely and sustainably. The services expected should ensure the safe and efficient retirement of IT assets. This includes data destruction, recycling, and remarketing.

Secure data destruction methods, such as degaussing, shredding, and software wiping, are essential components of ITAD services to prevent data breaches and protect sensitive information.

This lot is for the provision of domestic, general, recycling and confidential waste services to the following NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Trusts:

Cheshire & Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

East Cheshire NHS Trust - Domestic and general waste only

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Mid Cheshire NHS Foundation Trust

Wirral Community NHS Foundation Trust

General/Domestic Waste and Recycling - Interested bidders are invited to tender for the group of the Trusts requirement which will consist of collection and disposal of their domestic and general waste in accordance with all relevant regulations and legislation with a view to increase recycling and minimisation of waste thus reducing the Trust's environmental impact.

The services required are for non-clinical waste streams includes, but not limited to cardboard, glass, general non-confidential office waste, plastic bottles, textiles, offensive waste, hazardous waste, organic food waste, mattresses, furniture, WEEE and batteries (including lead acid, Ni-Cd and Lithium).

Confidential Waste Service - The collection and disposal of their Confidential Waste in accordance with all relevant regulations and legislation with a view to increasing recycling and minimisation of waste thus reducing the Trust's environmental impact. Suppliers shall offer on-site and off-site destruction services in accordance with BS EN 15713:2023. Material that belongs to confidential waste may include, but is not limited to:

• Records containing personal or medical information (e.g., forms, payrolls, pensions records, completed questionnaires, staff files).
• Records of a commercially sensitive nature (e.g., contracts, tenders, purchasing and maintenance records, legal documents).
• Records concerning intellectual property rights (e.g., unpublished research data, draft papers, and manuscripts).

Other materials that may require disposal and destruction within confidential waste include:

• Various types of paper
• Microfiche and microfilm
• Recording media
• CDs / DVDs. Blu-Ray disks, computer equipment, and accessories
• ID/swipe cards
• Branded clothing

Specialist suppliers within the different waste streams will be considered as part of the tender process on the basis that only ancillary services are subcontracted.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS/ACTIVITY BASED INCOME (ABI) The terms and conditions of this framework agreement and any resulting call-off contract is appended to the ITT. These terms include provisions requiring the payment by the supplier of an ABI management charge in consideration of the award of this framework agreement, The management and administration by HTE of the overall contract structure and associated documentation, as well as the requirement to submit regular management information to HTE.

SUBMISSION OF EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST AND PROCUREMENT INFORMATION

This exercise will be conducted on the HTE Bravo portal. Candidates wishing to be considered must register expressions of interest as follows: Register on the HTE portal at healthtrusteurope.bravosolution.co.uk ↗.

Log into the portal with username/password. Click the SQs/ITTs Open to All Suppliers link.

These are the SQs/ITTs open to any registered supplier. Click on the relevant SQ/ITT to access the content. Click the Express Interest button at the top of the page.

This will move the SQ/ITT into your My SQs/My ITTs page.

You can access any attachments by clicking Buyer Attachments in the SQ/ITT Details box.

Follow the on screen instructions to complete the SQ/ITT.

Submit your reply using the Submit Response button at the top of the page.

If you require any further advice, contact the Bravo e-Tendering Help Desk at

[email protected]. Additional information: HTE utilises the sid4gov supplier information database. Candidates should register on sid4gov at sid4gov.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/organisation/register ↗ and submit their sid4gov company profile for publication on the database. Candidates already registered on sid4gov must ensure information is up to date. Where access to sid4gov is unavailable, please contact the sid4gov helpdesk at sid4gov@gps