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Awarded · ResultStage · contract

Wigan Council

Waste Paper and Card Haulage and Treatment

Environment & WasteCPV 90000000
Value£500,000
Awarded30 Nov 2021
Published7 Feb 2022
RegionNorth West

£500,000 — awarded.

Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£500ktotal contract value
median £195k
this tender£0£5.0m

This sits in the upper-middle of the Environment & Waste band — a substantial contract for the sector. Based on 11,894 valued Environment & Waste tenders in our corpus.

The brief

Wigan Council is seeking a suitably qualified and experienced provider to manage the haulage and treatment of kerbside collected paper and card.

The contractor will be expected to collect the waste from Wigan Council's Waste Transfer Station and transfer it to its own facility for treatment.

This facility must operate in accordance with applicable legislation and have the capacity to accept all of Wigan's paper/card waste daily.

The contractor shall ensure the highest level of recycling is achieved, with waste sorted into marketable products that meet the standards of the paper and card recycling industry.

Wigan Council collects approximately 11 000 tonnes of paper and card waste per annum.

The solution will need to consider that the current contamination level is estimated at 8%.

The proposed contract will be for a period of 2 years with an option to extend for 2 further periods of 2 years each.

Submissions are only accepted by the Chest procurement portal https://www.the-chest.org.uk/

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

The contractor will be expected to collect

The contractor will be expected to collect the waste from Wigan Council's Waste Transfer Station and transfer it to its own facility for treatment.

02

This facility must operate in accordance

This facility must operate in accordance with applicable legislation and have the capacity to accept all of Wigan's paper/card waste daily.

03

The contractor shall ensure the highest level

The contractor shall ensure the highest level of recycling is achieved, with waste sorted into marketable products that meet the standards of the paper and card recycling industry.

04

The solution will need to consider

The solution will need to consider that the current contamination level is estimated at 8%.

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Source & provenance
OCID
14ecb26d-bcc2-4056-9d69-4746d694ed0f
Stage
contract · Contract
Source
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Buyer ref
WIGN001-DN560811-18616525
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