Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-08-21
Buyer: Buckinghamshire Council
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Competitive dialogue
CPV classification: 90000000 | 90500000 | 90512000 | 90514000 | 90530000
Estimated value: 39890000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2020-09-17
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Contract for the operation and management of the contracting authority's household recycling centres (HRCs) in Buckinghamshire to include, without limitation, the transportation of residual waste, green waste, bulky waste and wood waste from the HRCs to the contracting authority’s delivery points, the marketing, sale and transportation of recyclable materials and the transportation of other materials to the contractor’s transfer, processing, treatment or disposal sites.
The procurement is for the contracting authority's HRC service. The contracting authority currently has 9 HRCs namely:
— receipt of waste (including recyclables) from customers and waste delivered by the contracting authority and/or its contractors and others;
— collection of non-household waste charges set by the contracting authority for non-household waste deposited at HRCs;
— receipt of some trade waste at Aylesbury HRC, Amersham HRC, Aston Clinton HRC, Beaconsfield HRC and High Heavens HRC;
— collection of trade waste charges set by the contracting authority for trade waste deposited at HRCs;
— responsibility for the segregation, storage and onward transfer of materials for, processing, treatment, re-use, recycling and/or disposal;
— transportation of residual waste, green waste, bulky waste and wood waste from the HRCs to the contracting authority’s delivery points, the marketing, sale and transportation of recyclable materials and the transportation of other materials to the contractor’s transfer, processing, treatment or disposal sites;
— provision of vehicles, equipment, plant and containers – the contracting authority will provide some of these for use in the provision of the services as set out in the procurement documents;
— repair, maintenance and replacement of vehicles, equipment and containers as set out in the procurement documents.
The contract will be sufficiently flexible to facilitate the closure of one or more HRC(s), provision of a replacement HRC(s) and/or new HRC(s) at the contracting authority’s absolute discretion.
The initial contract period is 5 years. There will be an option for the contract period to be extended by a further period or periods of up to 5 years in aggregate.
The total contract period is stated to be 120 months. However, the initial contract period is 5 years with an option to extend by a further period or periods of up to 5 years in aggregate.
Economic operators wishing to submit an expression of interest must complete an SQ which is available on the Buckinghamshire portal and return it to the contracting authority by 17 September 2020 at 12:00 noon.
The estimated contract value for the full possible contract period of 10 years is a range between GBP 34 590 000 and GBP 39 890 000. The estimated range includes assumptions around sharing of some of the third party income. In arriving at the estimate range of contract value the contracting authority has considered without limitation estimated costs (including capital) and revenue associated with the provision of the services, inflation and potential betterment work to be explored as part of the competitive dialogue.


Award value: 39890000