CBC-0952-T-CE Waste Collection Services

Central Bedfordshire Council (CBC) seeks a suitably experienced and accredited Services Provider to provide a comprehensive high-quality range of waste and recycling collection, street and public open space cleansing across the whole of the authority area.

The contract will cover the collection of dry recyclable, residual, garden and food waste from households and the provision of services including bulky waste and clinical collection. The cleansing of streets and public open spaces and the associated services.

Tender process/procedure: OJEU, Restricted two stage - PART A (SSQ) and PART B (ITT).

Standard Selection Questionnaire

Part A - Standard Selection Questionnaire (SSQ) is a mandatory questionnaire document which must be completed.

Your tender will be rejected if this questionnaire is not completed as part of your tender submission as your organisation is assessed on the selection criteria contained in Part A.

Shortlisting of tenders will take place and will be made up of those Bidders who score the most points against this SSQ, are ranked the highest and thereby become one of a minimum of the top 5, however we may add more Bidders to the shortlist at the Council's discretion.

Those Bidders shortlisted under Part A (SSQ) will be invited to complete Part B (ITT), the Quality Questionnaire and Pricing Schedule.

Tender Timescales:

Submission of SQQ (Part A): 12 Noon, 17th December 2018

Successful Bidders invited to complete the Tender (Part B):14th January 2019 Deadline for receipt of Tenders: See return of tender section 5th April 2019

Help and Support - The Council will provide as much support and information as it can to help guide you through the Tender process. Questions asked together with the response will be made available to all tenderers to ensure a fair and consistent approach to all. All responses and updates will be issued as a 'Clarification' via the In-Tend portal.

If there is anything you are not sure of or need clarification on, please contact us using the 'Correspondence' facility within the In-tend electronic tendering system.

Additional information: To express an interest, please log in or register on our electronic tendering system https://in-tendhost.co.uk/centralbedfordshire in order to view the necessary tendering documents and respond accordingly.

Please note that once you have registered on In-tend a separate action (expressing an Interest) is required to access the documents, you must click on the actual Tender you wish to access. We accept no liability if you have not expressed an interest in the tender.

Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No