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Bedford Borough Council

Provision of Clinical Waste Services 2023 - AWARD

Environment & WasteCPV 90000000 90500000 90520000 90524000
Value£666k
Awarded4 Aug 2023
Published25 Sept 2023
RegionUK-wide
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£666ktotal 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

Bedford Borough Council currently collects Clinical Waste including sharps from residents as well as commercial customers including doctor surgeries, dentists and tattooists etc.

Clinical Waste is collected in yellow sacks and sharps in varying sizes of sharp boxes.

These wastes are stored at the Council's Transfer Station in a secure Clinical Waste compound in 770L bins.

Central Bedfordshire Council collects Offensive Waste in 'tiger' sacks and sharps in varying sizes of sharp boxes.

These waste types are brought to Bedford Borough Council's waste transfer station for secure storage in 770L bins and for onwards treatment/disposal.

The service shall be for the collection and treatment and/or disposal of Clinical Waste (infectious and non-infectious) and sharps and any residues from the treatment of these waste types.

The Contractor will provide a service to satisfy the above service needs.

Upon collection, full bins will be exchanged with empty ones left on site.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

The service shall be for the collection

The service shall be for the collection and treatment and/or disposal of Clinical Waste (infectious and non-infectious) and sharps and any residues from the treatment of these waste types.

02

The Contractor will provide a service

The Contractor will provide a service to satisfy the above service needs.

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Source & provenance
OCID
e08705a6-bacd-466e-a584-0a5ad18b7331
Stage
contract · Contract
Source
Contracts Finder
Buyer ref
IT-380-3339-BBC EN 36000 - AWARD
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