Residual Waste Disposal

The Council has issued a Prior Information Notice (PIN) in order to raise awareness of the contract and to give interested parties the opportunity to participate in a soft market exercise in relation to a possible future public procurement to award a contract for Residual Waste Disposal. The PIN is intended to give interested parties the opportunity to participate in a market engagement event prior to the commencement of a procurement process under the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. BCP Council requires a solution for residual waste treatment and/or disposal from the legacy council areas of Bournemouth and Christchurch. The waste sources are from kerbside domestic rounds, trade, street and beach litter. BCP Council is undertaking a period of pre-market engagement to discuss residual waste treatment/disposal options, delivery to site (either direct or through a local transfer station). Our sustainability obligations and suppliers’ preferred facility/technology along with any contingencies will also be discussed. The new waste treatment and disposal solution(s) must be in place by 1 September 2021 and will be for a minimum of three years, although there is likely to be extensions. Interest parties should be aware of the very tight timetable in place which means that there will be a brief period between contract award and service commencement. The estimated annual contract sum is £5.5m per annum. The approximate amount of residual waste that requires treatment/disposal is 48k tonnes (41k tonnes are derived from Bournemouth and 7k tonnes from Christchurch). This is according to full year data from the financial year 2019-2020. The Council is currently assessing any options for dividing the total into lots due to the waste originating from two different areas and the amounts being produced. BCP Council declared a climate and ecological emergency in 2019, committing the organisation to be carbon neutral by 2030, and the BCP area by 2050. This contract could play a large part in working towards those objectives. Therefore, final destinations of waste are of interest but as yet no single type of treatment/disposal is ruled out. Additionally, if waste cannot be directly delivered then a transfer station within or close to the BCP Council area could be explored.