Environmental Enforcement Services (FPN)

To provide an enforcement service for Peterborough City Council, Fenland District Council and other local authorities within Cambridgeshire to access..

The enforcement service is to address Council and community priorities, currently to deal with littering offences, including spitting and public urination and the breach of public space protection orders.

The scope of these enforcement actions may change subject to community and Council priorities.

To issue fixed penalty notices.

To deal with the administration of fixed penalty notices and payments.

To deal with customer complaints and in particular to provide an appeals facility and in cases of non-payment provide prosecution ready case files in such format approved by the Council.

To provide the services on a cost neutral basis to the Councils, the services must be funded by the receipts from the service of fixed penalty notices. For the avoidance of doubt this contract should be at zero cost to the authority, and generate income from issuing Fixed Penalty Notice (FPNs) fines through delegation of powers.This contract is revenue neutral to the authority - it will be self funding based on the payment of fixed penalty notice fines..

To have the ability to expand the services to add further services, for example waste and fly tipping offences.

To enable the services to be managed in a flexible manner in order to respond to specific demands of the Council.

Please refer to Document A for specific instruction on completion of this tender. The Specification at Appendix 2 provides full details of the requirement.