Waste and Cleansing Contract, Burnley Borough Council VEAT

Description

Please note this award notice is for transparency purposes. See VEAT Notice  2024/S 000-003671 published on the FTS service. 

Contract description: The delivery of residual and recyclable (including green waste) waste collection services to all eligible households within the Authority area and street cleansing services, including management of the transfer of collected materials to Authority designated delivery sites.

Additional information: Urbaser Ltd is the Council's existing contractor
under its waste and cleansing contract. This
contract commenced in June 2015 on an initial
eight-year term and has since been extended for an
additional two years to 31st May 2025. Due to
ongoing uncertainty around the implementation of
the recently announced Government waste
reforms. This procurement shall extend the existing
services to be performed by Urbaser for a further
ten months, to 31st March 2026, with an option to
extend for an additional twelve months until 1st
June 2027 if required. The extension was
undertaken in accordance with the original
contractual terms.

In addition, there is also currently disposal
uncertainty (Burnley Borough Council operates
within a two-tier waste authority system). The
County Council, as the disposal authority, have
advised collection authorities that the existing
disposal arrangements (running to landfill) will
cease on the 1st April 2026. The Borough Council is
therefore required to seek their own disposal
arrangements. As such, the extension is required to
align these two significant service changes. See  separately published VEAT Notice 2024/S 000-003671 on FTS.