THE PROVISION OF AN ORGANIC WASTE TREATMENT SOLUTION

The Council has identified an opportunity to expand its current household organic waste collection service to include food waste which could be co-mingled into the existing fortnightly garden waste collection. The inclusion of food waste within the garden waste stream would therefore require a technology capable of treating co-mingled organic waste to a standard compliant with the animal by products regulations (ABPR) to enable its recycling.

The Council are therefore open to consideration of technologies which are capable of recycling comingled garden and food waste which may include, although are not limited to: • Anaerobic digestion (high or low solids); and, • In-vessel composting. The Council have considered the maturity of the market segments associated with these technology options and are cognisant that differing levels of deployment and supplier options available to the Council are a major factor in selection and procurement approach.

It is foreseeable that some treatment options offered to the Council could utilise existing assets whereas other options would see the construction of a new facility for the treatment of Contract Waste, potentially alongside Third Party Waste. The Council has identified a number of public and privately owned sites which could be appropriate for an organic waste treatment facility use subject to appropriate planning policy determination.

The Authority is willing but does not guarantee, to make a site available and reserves the right to continue with the procurement in the absence of a Council site.Details of the Authority Site will be provided at the outline solutions phase. Two Lots are therefore presented to the market within this procurement in recognition of this market dynamic.

Any applicant who intends to design, build, finance and operate (DBFO) an organic waste treatment facility.This includes any applicant who proposes to build a facility which is not solely for the processing of Cheshire East Council waste, and regardless of whether the facility will be located on Council provided land. This option includes any applicant who may have already achieved in part, any aspects of the DBFO requirement, but do not yet have an operational facility commissioned.

The anticipated duration of the contract will be for a period of 17 years (1st April 2017-31st March 2034) and the value attributed to the individual Lots will be: LOT 1 £19.3m LOT 2 £19.3m The timescales and values given are estimations only and the Council gives no guarantee or warranty or makes any representation as to the accuracy of any indicative volumes. Additional information: Applicants should note that whilst the Council is pursuing 2 Lots through this procurement it will only proceed with the Lot which is determined to provide best value to the Council in meeting its key requirements based on the evaluation criteria set out.

The Council reserves the right not to take forward either Lot at any stage of the process if it is clear that the responses for either Lot are unable to meet the key requirements. This procurement exercise will be conducted on Cheshire East Borough Council's electronic Contract and Tender Management System at the www.the-chest.org.uk Organisations wishing to be considered for this contract must register their expression of interest and provide additional required information through the Contract and Tender Management System.

The project reference on The Chest is DN110114. If and when the Council continues with the dialogue and tender stage, this will be done in whole or in part via electronic means using the Contract and Tender Management System.

The values given in this notice are only estimations, final figures shall be considered through the competitive dialogue process. The Council gives no guarantee or warranty or makes any representation as to the accuracy of any indicative volumes— any expenditure, work or effort undertaken prior to Contract Award is accordingly a matter solely for the commercial judgement of potential operators.