Derbyshire Dales District Council is seeking to procure a Waste and Recycling Services Contract from 2.8.2020 for an initial term of 8 years, with an option to extend for a further 8-year period.

The Contractor shall provide services for the duration of the Contract Period in compliance with all relevant legislation and with consideration to existing policy and guidance including on health and safety and environmental matters.

Derbyshire Dales District Council is seeking to procure a waste and recycling services contract from 2.8.2020 for an initial term of 8 years, with an option to extend for a further 8-year period.

The Council is a Waste Collection Authority in Derbyshire with 34 154 households (March 2019). The Derbyshire Dales District covers approximately 800 km2 of which approximately 84 % of the area is rural, and has a population of around 70 700 people. The district has 5 towns and over 100 villages with almost half of the population of the district living in outlying villages and the remainder residing in the 5 towns. The Contract shall include the following services.

Waste collection services:

— household residual waste collection,

— household dry recycling collection,

— household food waste collection,

— household garden waste collection,

— Christmas tree recycling collection,

— household bulky waste and white goods collection,

— commercial waste and recycling collection,

— clinical waste collection.

Processing of dry recycling:

— marketing the separately collected paper stream,

— haulage of dry recycling to the reprocessor(s),

— handling marketing and haulage of the recyclable materials to separate into saleable products that maximise the value of the material.

This procurement is being conducted under the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. The Council is following the competitive procedure with negotiation and reserves the right to award the contract on the basis of the initial tenders without conducting negotiations.

The Contractor shall provide services for the duration of the Contract Period in compliance with all relevant legislation and with consideration to existing policy and guidance including on health and safety and environmental matters.