Provision Of Organic Waste Transfer Services

The Council is seeking to appoint a suitably qualified organisation to accept and treat organic waste.

This organic waste will be garden and possibly food waste and will consist of:

• Green garden waste, such as, grass, plant, shrub and tree cuttings as well as well as pot plants, cut flowers, spent compost, windfalls etc.; • Green vegetable waste such as vegetable trimmings (outer cabbage / lettuce leaves, potatoes and carrots skins etc.); • Natural Christmas trees following the festive session; • All types of fruit and vegetable matter; • Cooked and Uncooked meats, fish and bones; • Tea bags and coffee grounds; • Other food scraps that may be raw or cooked; and • Compostable bags or liners are also included under this definition as long as they meet EN13432.

Location Requirements – the District/Borough Council must take into account the cost of transporting waste from various collection sites to the acceptance facility. In order to keep these costs to a minimum, and to meet carbon reduction aspirations, the successful economic operator should have access to an appropriate acceptance facility located within a ten mile radius of the Councils’ Hawkes Green Depot, located at Hawkes Green Lane, Cannock, Staffordshire, WS11 6LH

Additional information: This is an electronic tender. All requests for information to be sent through the electronic tendering portal and messaging facility on the Proactis electronic tendering system. How to register: -

1. Instructions at http://www.staffordshire.gov.uk/business/procurement/etendering/ 2. Follow the link to Proactis E-Tendering (http://www.staffordshire.alito.co.uk). On the main page click SUPPLIERS then (new user) REGISTER links. 3. Complete the self-registration questions and click the Register button. 4. You will receive a confirmation e-mail with an authentication link (this email may find its way to your trash/junk email account, so please check). 5. Confirm the authentication and then login into Proactis SUPPLIERS-side. 6. Search the bulletin board for the tender(s) using key words, search criteria etc. 7. Once found, click on the (blue) contract title to register interest against an active tender. 8. Click the REGISTER button and then CONTINUE. 9. The tender will now be in the MY TENDERS profile area on the main menu. 10. Find the READ ME FIRST document and continue with managing the tender.

If you require urgent assistance regarding the initial usage of the eTendering package please contact the Contracting Authority point-of-contact in Section I.1 of this notice. On failure to reach this contact, please immediately email the nature of the difficulty to [email protected]