Vefsn Municipality invites tenderers to an open contest in accordance with Part I and Part II of the regulations. Vefsn Municipality owns the premises at cadastral no. 105/2 Nesbruket. The municipality will replace the matter in the approximately 40-acres of bark mulch with clean matter and is itself the project owner, designer and project manager.
The procurement is split into two stages, both stages will be kept separate and will have separate contests. This enquiry is for stage 2.
Stage 2 is being held as a separate procurement as it can take a long time to get
approval from the central pollution authority for depositing the matter. The TOC
content is above 10% and the matter is, as a starting point, therefore covered by the ban on depositing in the waste regulations, section 9-4, first paragraph, letter a).
Further details on stage 2:
According to the action plan, approx. 40,000 m3 of the matter in the bark mulch is deemed to be so polluted that it must be deposited in a certified landfill site or possibly another certified solution (e.g., incineration with off-gas treatment or other solutions). At the contract start for stage 2, this matter (approx. 40,000 m3) will lie unsorted and ready for transportation away from the area to a certified landfill site/other solution.
Market surveys have shown that there are few landfill sites that are currently certified to receive highly polluted matter in TKL 4 and TKL 5 when the matter includes more than 10% TOC. The contracting authority has therefore set a long tender deadline so that the tenderer's/tenderers' landfill solution can apply for certification from the public administrator in the landfill site county, receive the possible certification of the solution from the public administrator, and submit a complete, ready certified solution proposal for transport and depositing/other solution.
The contest is for the lowest possible price for a solution that must be certified by the central pollution authority. The public administrator is the pollution authority for established landfill sites in their county. Bark filling includes, as the name indicates, old bark and other waste from old sawmill that were operated on the property. As stated in the action plan, there are also some elements of other matter than bark. The filling is laid on old lugworm (contour line 0) and is partially under the highest flood water level. The matter is therefore damp and the bark is partially decomposed. The municipality's environment consultant has suggested that drying and incinerating can be a possible solution. The fuel-value of the matter is expected to be low. The matter in TKL 4 and 5 cannot lie on the property. The municipality will therefore consider all legal solutions in this contest for depositing/processing the matter based on the lowest possible price.
Page 68 of the action plan has a map where you can see the number of the 11 tests that detected TKL 4 and the one test that detected TKL 5. These 12 test points show what the 40,000 m3 of highly polluted matter include. When applying to the public administrator for any dispensation from the waste regulations, section 9-4, first paragraph, letter a) to lay the matter in an ordinary landfill site, the environmental toxin content of the matter, its content and organic carbon (TOC), the result of leak tests, and a description of the landfill site's treatment solution (covering, seepage water treatment, etc.), must be included in the application. The first three of these points are stated in the annexes to this contest (the action plan with annexes), whilst the last point must be answered by the tenderer's chosen landfill site.