Tender for the Treatment of Municipal Food Waste

Descriptions

To provide a service for the treatment of source segregated “food wastes”, originating from the Authority’s food waste collection routes, comprising of domestic and commercial properties. It is not implicit under this Contract that the Contractor providing the service is the facility treating the food waste in the first instance. The Contractor is not obliged to treat the food waste on site but may “out source” the treatment process to one or more facilities. These facility(s) must be fully licensed and meet all current legislation to receive and process such wastes.The Contractor must supply evidence that they have found an end treatment facility(s) with a capacity of a maximum of 9,000 tonnes per annum and which can accept the food waste material detailed in the tender document.Plans are being developed by the Welsh Assembly Government for an Anaerobic Digestion (AD) facility to serve the South West Wales Region and Pembrokeshire County Council (PCC) will be contracted to use it. The timescale in which the AD facility will become fully operational has yet to be confirmed, however, it will not be before 1st September 2012 and not later than March 2014. Once commissioned, PCC food waste will be treated at the new regional AD facility; consequently this interim arrangement will no longer be required and the contractor will be provided with 13 weeks prior notice to terminate this contract.Pembrokeshire County Council will be conducting this procurement exercise electronically using the Alito e-tendering portal. Interested parties wishing to express an interest in this opportunity must log on to http://appswales.alito.co.uk and register and access the documents via the Bulletin Board.