Organic Waste Treatment Service Contract

Descriptions

An organic waste treatment service contract was made between NWP and the statutory predecessor of arc21 in 2008 after a procurement begun in 2005. After an initial period when waste would be processed elsewhere, NWP was to operate a facility at a site in Belfast (Dargan Road) but the necessary permissions for that operation have not been secured so other arrangements have continued. The contract required a service for 15 years from the grant of planning permission for Dargan Road plus an extended period at arc21’s option. Because there has been no permission, but the contract has not been terminated, it has no definite end date. It is proposed to utilise the provisions of contract allowing the authority to vary the contract to clarify the actual long-term basis of provision of the service, to provide a definite end point and to make appropriate adjustments to the commercial terms; arc21 considers that the variation won't amount to a modification of the contract requiring a new procurement.