Household Waste Collection, Transfer and Associated Services

Leicester City Council is conducting a Competitive Flexible Procedure for the collection of kerbside household waste in Leicester, management and operation of a waste transfer station, and associated services. This contract will replace the existing PFI arrangement on expiry in 2028.
The Authority's key objectives are to:
• Provide good quality, cost-efficient, value for money waste services.
• Engage, educate and support residents to minimise their waste, maximise repair, reuse, recycling and composting, and to understand how to access, and make the most of, reuse services.
• Minimise the carbon emissions and other greenhouse gases arising from the collection, treatment and disposal of waste.
• Minimise the amount of waste sent to landfill.
• Provide waste services that can evolve as necessary to support anticipated growth of household and population numbers in the City.
This will include:
• Household residual waste and dry mixed recycling (DMR) collections on an alternate weekly basis (fortnightly) instead of weekly.
• The introduction of wheeled DMR bins to replace single use bags as standard.
• Implementation of weekly food waste collections as early as possible.
• Retention of bespoke and / or more frequent arrangements for communal collection points and others as appropriate, as well as exception processes for households with specific requirements for assistance.
• Continuation of fortnightly garden waste collections from March to November.
• Continuation of clinical waste collections from households on request.
• Continuation of bulky waste collections from households on request.
Scope
The Contract shall include the following Services:
• Household Waste and Recycling Collection including:
- Residual Waste Collection Service
- Dry Mixed Recycling Collection Service
- Food Waste Collection Service
- Garden Waste Collection Service
- Bulky Waste Collection Service
- Clinical Waste Collection Service
- Other provisional items such as...