TENV21-009 Provision for the Treatment of Biowaste

Derry City and Strabane District Council; Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council and Mid Ulster District Council each wish to procure a separate contract for the provision of Biowaste waste treatment services . The services required by Derry City and Strabane District Council are currently provided by Natural World Procducts Limited. The services required by Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council are currently provided by Natural World Products Limited. The services required by Mid Ulster District Council are currently provided by Natural World Products Limited. The Authorities each have a statutory duty under the Waste and Contaminated Land (Northern Ireland) Order 1997 No. 2778 (N.I. 19) (Part II Articles 20(1)(a)(b) and 20(2)) to arrange for the collection of household, commercial and industrial waste. The Authorities are also required under the 1997 Order (Part II, Article 25(1)(a)) to make arrangements for the disposal of any waste collected or removed under Article 20 of the 1997 Order. The Authorities have jointly published a contract notice in the OJEU and are each seeking to award a contract under separate lots (each a “Lot”) as follows:

Lot 1: Derry City and Strabane District Council

Lot 2: Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council Lot 3A: Mid Ulster District Council Brown Bin Waste Lot 3B: Mid Ulster District Council Green Waste. These Contracts will form an important part of each Council’s forward-looking strategy to manage waste in its area by reducing the amount of waste sent to landfill and increasing recycling rates. Appointed Contractors will be required to ensure that Contract Waste is recycled, reused, recovered and/or treated in recognition of the waste hierarchy before landfilled in order to maximise diversion. For the avoidance of doubt, one contract will be awarded by Derry City and Strabane District Council for Lot 1 described above and one contract will be awarded by Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council for Lot 2 described above one contract will be awarded by Mid Ulster District Council for Lot 3A and 3B described above. Derry City and Strabane District Council shall have no liability in respect of the Competition for the Lots 2 and 3A or 3B Contract; Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council shall have no liability in respect of the Competition for the Lot 1 and 3A or 3B Contract. Mid Ulster District Council shall have no liability in respect of the Competition for the Lots 1 and 2 Contract. Economic Operators may submit Tenders for one Lot or for all Lots. Economic Operators are required to indicate in their Submissions which of the above Lots they wish to be considered for. If Economic Operators are bidding for all Lots they should ensure that they have sufficient capacity at their Principal Facilites to collect, accept, treat, process, re-use, recycle/compost and/or dispose of a total of 54,400 tonnes per annum in the event that they wish to be successful in all Lots. The initial Contract will be for a period of 36 months with the option to extend the contract for a further one-year period followed by a one -year period giving a possible total of 2 year’s extension to the contract period. Please refer to CfT Documents for further details