Environmental Enforcement Services (FPN)

To provide a single supplier framework to deliver environmental enforcement services to those contracting authorities who may access and use the framework, including Peterborough City Council, Fenland District Council and other local authorities within Cambridgeshire. The enforcement service to address local authority and community priorities, currently to deal with littering offences, including spitting and public urination and the breach of public space protection orders.

The scope of these enforcement actions may change subject to community and local authority priorities. To issue fixed penalty notices.

To deal with the administration of fixed penalty notices and payments. To deal with customer complaints and in particular to provide an appeals facility and in cases of non-payment provide prosecution ready case files in such format approved by the local authority.

To provide the services on a cost neutral basis to the Peterborough City Council and Fenland District Council and other local authorities that may use the services must be funded by the receipts from the service of fixed penalty notices. For the avoidance of doubt this contract would be at zero cost to the authority, and would generate income from issuing Fixed Penalty Notice (FPNs) fines through delegation of powers.This contract is revenue neutral to the authority - it will be self funding based on the payment of fixed penalty notice fines.

All income generated in excess of cost neutrality will be retained by Peterborough City Council, Fenland District Council and any other local authority that utlises the framework with respect to FPN's settled within their respective authority. To have the ability to expand the services to add further services, for example waste and fly tipping offences.

To enable the services to be managed in a flexible manner in order to respond to specific demands of Peterborough City Council and and Fenland District Council and other local authorities that may use the framework. The burden of non-payment of correctly issued tickets shall not lie with the contractor 1. All local authorities within Cambridgeshire will be authorised to call off this contract should they wish to - but neither Peterborough City Council, Fenland District Council or any other local authority within Cambridgeshire are under any obligation to utilise the framework. 2.