HWRC Operation and Management

Waste Disposal Authorities (including Unitary Authorities) are required to provide residents with a place to dispose of their household waste, under Section 51(1)(b) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 (the "1990 Act").
The Council intends to procure a contractor to manage and operate its Household Waste Recycling Centre (HWRC) network across 6 HWRC Sites with materials management at one additional site - 7 sites. The HWRCs are in:
• Alkerton HWRC, near Banbury
• Ardley Fields HWRC, Bicester
• Redbridge HWRC, Oxford
• Drayton HWRC, Vale of White Horse
• Oakley Wood HWRC, South Oxfordshire
• Stanford in the Vale HWRC, Vale of White Horse
• Dix Pit HWRC, West Oxfordshire (haulage operations and materials management only)
The contract will include:
1. The management and operation of six Household Waste Recycling Centres ("HWRC Sites") (Alkerton, Ardley Fields (relocated to Bicester during the Contract Period), Drayton, Oakley Wood, Redbridge and Stanford Vale), including the provision of the following services:
a. Reception operations:
i. meet and greet;
ii. managing and checking bookings;
iii. checking for waste Acceptance Criteria and unsorted waste;
iv. checking all vehicles required to have permits have the correct permit to access the HWRC Site;
v. charging for Chargeable Waste, including DIY Waste above the free allowance and other Chargeable Waste, and for Commercial Waste, where applicable; and
vi. enforcement of the above.
b. HWRC Sites operation:
i. maximising the Re-use, Recycling, Composting and Recovery of Contract Waste deposited by Customers according to the waste hierarchy;
ii. management of waste collected under Waste Collection Authorities duties ('WCA Waste');
iii. management of Chargeable Waste;
iv. management of Commercial Waste services, where applicable;
v. unsorted waste segregation, including by encouraging customers to separate reuse and/or recycling from any mixed or unsorted waste brought to site;
vi. managing Re-use hubs, where...