Tenders Are Invited For STWWMP Provision and Operation of a Materials Recovery Facility

Gateshead Council South Tyneside Council and Sunderland City Council have formed The South Tyne and Wear Waste Management Partnership to implement their waste management responsibilities jointly and are represented by Gateshead Council as the lead Authority The Borough Council of Gateshead shall enter into back to back contractual arrangements with its Partner Authorities to pass down the relevant provisions of this Contract Tender the Authority Contracts The Authority Contracts shall be implemented by the Borough Council of Gateshead as Lead Authority for the Partner Authorities under the Contract for and on behalf of itself and the Partner Authorities This contract is for the Provision and Operation of a Materials Recovery Facility ies to include haulage and processing of Authorised Materials and Delivery Points for Gateshead and Sunderland to receive and process Authorised Materials The requirements of the contract are Lot1 Gateshead The provision of a Materials Recovery Facility MRF to process and sort collected Materials The provision of a suitable supporting Delivery Point s which will receive the Authorised Materials delivered by Gateshead Council and from which the Contractor will transfer the delivered Authorised Materials to the appropriate Processing Facility The transfer of the segregated Materials to suitable merchants or re processors The provision of a complete record of all Materials delivered the interim processors Outlets and the ultimate destination of each Material Monthly analysis of the Materials carried out in accordance with the MRF Code of Practice Lot 2 Sunderland The provision of a Materials Recovery Facility MRF to process and sort collected Materials The provision of a suitable supporting Delivery Point s which will receive the Authorised Materials delivered by Sunderland Council and from which the Contractor will transfer the delivered Authorised Materials to the appropriate Processing Facility The transfer of the segregated Materials to suitable merchants or re processors The provision of a complete record of all Materials delivered the interim processors Outlets and the ultimate destination of each Material Monthly analysis of the Materials carried out in accordance with the MRF Code of Practice Lot 3 South Tyneside Council The provision of a Materials Recovery Facility MRF to process and sort collected Materials South Tyneside will provide its own Recycling Transfer Station delivery point from which the Contractor will transfer the delivered Authorised Material to the appropriate processing Facility See further details in the introduction The transfer of the segregated Materials to suitable merchants or re processors The provision of a complete record of all Materials delivered the interim processors Outlets and the ultimate destination of each Material Monthly analysis of the Materials carried out in accordance with the MRF Code of Practice Tenderers may bid for one or all Lots The Service shall be provided for the Reception and Treatment of collected recyclable Materials from approximately 296 940 properties across the three Council areas Gateshead 94 160 properties South Tyneside 72 240 properties Sunderland 130 540 properties The Materials will be collected and delivered using Refuse Collection Vehicles split bodied compaction conventional and non compaction and the recyclable Materials will consist of Co mingled materials in a wheeled bin Glass bottles jars Plastic bottles pots tubs and trays Cardboard Aluminium foil Mixed paper including news and PAMS Food and drinks cartons e g Tetra paks Cans Aerosols ferrous and non ferrous Newspaper PAMS collected separately in a 40 ltr inner caddy Fibre Collection Trial In February 2019 Gateshead and South Tyneside introduced a trial to collect fibre all paper and card in a 240 litre wheeled bin on one collection day in each council area whereby the inner caddy was replaced by the wheeled bin The fibre bin and comingled bin are collected on a 4 weekly basis on alternate fortnights The Councils are retaining this collection system for these properties during this contract

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