Food Waste & AHP

Description

A single contractor for the provision of all required infrastructure for the kerbside collection of food waste (weekly) and absorbent Hygiene products (fortnightly). This will include the provision of a depot, manpower, vehicles and all associated required infrastructure. Falkirk Council to secure a solution to the kerbside collection requirement of domestic food waste and Absorbent Hygiene Products (AHP) in order to continue to comply with the Household Recycling Charter for Scotland and associated Code of Practice. Falkirk Council is seeking a single supplier contractor for the provision of all required infrastructure. This will include the provision of a depot, manpower, vehicles etc to provide a weekly kerbside food waste collection service and a two weekly collection service of AHP. Current volumes of domestic food waste collected is 5800 tonnes p.a and for AHP the volume is 700 tonnes p.a, with approximately 4,600 service users. The proposed term of contract being 7 years with an option to extend for a further 3 year period. It is anticipated that the new arrangement will commence September 2023.