Published date: 20 March 2023

Last edited date: 28 March 2023

This notice was replaced on 7 June 2023

This notice does not contain the most up-to-date information about this procurement. The most recent notice is:

Awarded contract (published 7 June 2023)

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Contract summary

Industry

  • Consulting services for water-supply and waste consultancy - 71800000

  • Refuse and waste related services - 90500000

Location of contract

TR210LW

Value of contract

£32,000

Procurement reference

CIoS230323

Published date

20 March 2023

Closing date

21 April 2023

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

1 May 2023

Contract end date

1 October 2023

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (below threshold)

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

This procedure can be used for procurements below the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

The Council of the Isles of Scilly requires the support of an experienced waste management consultant, or group of consultants, with expertise in Local Authority commercial waste services, ideally with experience working on islands, to work in partnership with the Council to complete a review of commercial waste and recycling services, across the islands to:
• ensure the Council is operating compliantly.
• to reduce Council budget pressures.
• to ensure the Council's waste management service can be sustainably managed.
Alongside a commercial waste service review, the Council also requires a solution focused Action Plan to be developed to deliver immediate and medium-long term solutions, and to identify priorities to deliver the above.
Commercial waste services review required to take place over 3 months to include:
• A 5-day visit to the islands as part of information gathering exercise to inform the service review and action plan. Including shadowing the waste collection teams, visiting off islands and speaking to third party contractors and hauliers.
• A review of the Council's current commercial waste policy, and scoping implementation of policy relating to charging waste from self-catering properties (under Controlled Waste Regulations, 2011).
• A review of the Council's fees and charges framework for commercial waste and recycling, based on actual costs of running the service across the islands.
• A review of the Council's commercial waste collection service on St Mary's.
• A review of the Council's commercial waste services implemented on the off islands.
• Reviewing current enforcement practices and future opportunities to support behaviour change amongst businesses.
• Action Plan to deliver outcomes in the commercial waste review over the next 12-18 months.

More information

Attachments

  • 2022_Clean_Standard TCs for Services.docx
  • Contract draft
  • Also prepared to add additional wording relating to PI:
    We have agreed to amend Clause 21 of the contract to cap potential liabilities by adding a subclause to ensure that the potential liabilities are proportionate to the value of the contract along the lines of: "Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Contract, the Consultant's maximum aggregate liability under or in connection with this Contract shall in no event exceed a sum equivalent to the greater of one million pounds sterling (£1,000.000.00) or 10x of the fee payable to the Consultant.

About the buyer

Contact name

Keith Grossett

Address

Town Hall, St Mary's,
ISLES OF SCILLY
TR210LW
England

Telephone

01720 424491

Email

procurement@scilly.gov.uk