SS16 40 - Local Authority Collected Municipal Waste - Additional Tonnage

Kent County Council (the Authority) is the largest local authority in

England covering an area of 3,500 square kilometres. It has an annual

expenditure of over £1bn on goods and services and a population of 1.3m.

The Authority provides a wide range of personal and strategic services on

behalf of its residents, operating in partnership with 12 district councils and

289 parish/town councils.

The Council consists of four directorates

Social Care, Health and Wellbeing

Education and Young People’s Services

Growth, Environment and Transport

Strategic and Corporate Services

Kent County Council (the Authority) represented by Waste Management (within

the Growth, Environment and Transport Directorate), is the statutory Waste

Disposal Authority for Kent and is responsible for making arrangements for the

treatment and/or disposal as appropriate of Local Authority Collected Municipal

Waste (LACMW), under the provisions of the Environmental Protection Act

1990.

Expressions of Interest are invited from suitably qualified and experienced

Providers who are interested in tendering for the following services:

The processing of additional local authority collected waste for disposal,

avoiding landfill (Lot 1) and the reception and bulking of food waste and

co-mingled dry recyclables including glass for the Maidstone area (Lot 2).

Kent’s residual waste is currently bulked and converted to energy at the

Allington energy from waste plant. Maidstone’s food waste and co-mingled dry

recyclables including glass is also received and separately bulked at the

Allington transfer station ready for separate transportation and final

recycling treatment.

The aforementioned processing of this waste is undertaken under contract by

Kent Enviropower Ltd. This contract mandates the Authority is to provide a

minimum tonnage commitment of waste through the energy plant. Waste growth and

continued forecast growth, means that the minimum tonnage commitment is likely

to be exceeded hence the need for these new alternative contractual

arrangements.

This growth is forecast to be 45,000 tonnes, of which a 1,000 tonnes will be

Co-Mingled Recyclate and Food waste. The Authority seeks the treatment of

these two waste streams in two Lots and it is specified that landfill is

avoided (excepting any residues due to processing of these waste materials) so

the Authority is able to meet current EU landfill targets and recycling

treatment is maintained.

Lots

It is the Authority’s intention to present these Services in ‘waste stream

packages’ (Lots) based on material requirements –

The total solution capacity for both Lots should cater for in the region of

45,000 tonnes per annum in total, but this is not warranted, nor is it an

indication of future tonnage.

Lot 1 - Local Authority Collected Municipal Additional Waste – Additional

Tonnage for Waste Disposal derived from County wide sites – The Authority

estimates that the indicative tonnage per annum will be 44,000 tonnes.

Historical and indicative tonnage volumes are detailed in Appendix F.

Lot 2 - Reception and Bulking of Food Waste and Co-Mingled Dry Recyclables

including Glass (Maidstone area)– derived from the Maidstone area – this

Service is for the reception and bulking of this waste stream which will be

transported (tenderers should note the Authority has separate haulage

arrangements, onward haulage is out of scope of these contracts) onward to

Final Destination points. The Authority estimates that the indicative tonnage

per annum will be 1,000 tonnes. Historical and indicative tonnage volumes

are detailed in Appendix F.

Tenderers should note that this service for Lot 2 will be required once the

minimum tonnage commitment at the Allington Transfer Station has been exceeded

and is also dependent on the Maidstone area increasing their recycling

rates.

Tenderers can bid for one or both Lots.

The Authority may award both Lots to a single tenderer. However, separate

contracts for each Lot will be awarded to separate tenderers if it is more

economically advantageous to do so.

These contract(s) are anticipated to commence upon 1st November

2016 and will continue for a period of initially a 41 month term,

followed by three separate extension periods of 40 months. The end date of the

contract(s) will be 31st March 2030 unless terminated in accordance

with the Conditions of Contract on the Kent Business Portal.

The estimated value of the lot is:

Lot 1 - £4.25m p.a and potentially £59.5m over the full term but

no guarantee is given as to the actual value of the contract.

Lot 2 - £100k p.a and potentially £1.4m over the full term but

no guarantee is given as to the actual value of the contract.

3 extension option(s) available, 0 taken; up to 120 months in total