North Wales Residual Waste Treatment Partnership

Descriptions

Flintshire County Council (for and on behalf of itself and Conwy County Borough Council, Denbighshire County Council, Gwynedd Council and Isle of Anglesey County Council and/or such local authority(ies) in central Wales (including but not limited to Powys County Council and Ceredigion County Council) as may join these authorities or may be substituted for one or more of these authorities), together the North Wales Residual Waste Treatment Partnership ("the Partnership"), are seeking, subject to value for money and affordability considerations, a contractor (or consortium) to enter into a long-term PPP contract for the provision of a solution for the treatment and disposal of the Partnership's residual waste (the "Project"). The Project is being supported by the Welsh Assembly Government ("WAG") with possible revenue support to be provided towards the annual payments for the service. The Project may include, but is not limited to, the design, build, finance and/or operation of a waste treatment facility (or facilities) and waste transfer station(s) and/or a merchant waste treatment facility(ies) and or merchant waste treatment capacity ("the Project"). The Project is anticipated to include the handling of all treatment outputs, rejects and residues from the solution including (but not limited to) the marketing and sale of recyclable materials, compostable materials, other materials recovered, transfer, loading and onward transport to final destinations including the provision of landfill for residues to the extent necessary.The Partnership reserves the right to explore with the applicants during the procurement process the potential for marketing any energy (heat and/or power and/or electricity) produced by the solution to neighbouring users and/or to the Partnership and/or to the National Grid and/or to other users. The procurement is not intended to include any of the collection or delivery functions to the solution. However as a matter of flexibility, the Partnership may wish to include some ancillary waste management services such as (but not limited to) construction and operation of waste transfer stations and bulking and haulage operations.Dependent on the solution proffered, the expectation is that financing for the Project will be predominantly, if not wholly, procured from private finance. However the Partnership reserves the right to adopt a contract structure that best meets its respective needs or to provide or procure capital contributions and/or finance for the Project from other sources including (but not limited to) prudential borrowing and/or the European Investment Bank. The Partnership has identified a site within the ownership of the Partnership which is considered suitable and can be considered by the applicants when putting forward their solution, although the Partnership and applicants will be free to put forward other sites for the Project. The Partnership site is located at Deeside EM1 13 at Weighbridge Road, Deeside Industrial Park, Flintshire. The Partnership does not intend to specify a particular technology for the solution and will, therefore, consider any technology solution that meets the Partnership requirements which will be assessed in accordance with the evaluation criteria/methodology for the Project. The potential for the solution to cater for commercial and industrial waste as well as waste from other public sector organisations may be explored during competitive dialogue.The Partnership will follow a lead authority model and Flintshire County Council will enter into the contract for and on behalf of itself and the other local authorities in the Partnership. Following completion of the Pre- Qualification stage of the procurement the E-Box web based Document portal will be used to distribute documents throughout the remainder of the procurement process. Access to this system is free to operators. Details of this system will be issued with the ITPD documentationFor further details refer to Sections II.2.1 and V.3.Bidders should note that a Bidder's Day has been organised for 16 Aug 2010. Further details will be provided with the tender documentation.Please note that the last date for clarification regarding the PQQ document is 13th September 2010.