TENDER FOR COLLECTION AND TREATMENT OF BIOWASTE (GREENWASTE AND BROWN BIN WASTE) REF: 2526 TNDR EP 009

Fermanagh and Omagh District Council (The Council) invite tenders from suitably experienced and licensed contractors to collect, process and recycle biowaste. The contract materials will be collected by the successful Bidder(s) at the Council’s fully licensed transfer stations located at: Omagh Operations Centre, Gortrush Transfer Station, Gortrush Industrial Estate, Great Northern Road, Omagh. BT78 5EJ Licence Number: WML 25/04 and Fermanagh Operations Centre, Drummee Transfer Station, 30 Drummee Road, Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh. BT74 7LE Licence number 34/24. The tender will be divided into four individual pricing lots as listed below. Lot 1 - Collection, treatment and processing of co-mingled brown bin material from Omagh Operations Centre. Lot 2 – Collection, treatment and processing of co-mingled brown bin material from Fermanagh Operations Centre. Lot 3 – Collection, treatment and processing of biodegradable garden waste (green waste) from Omagh Operations Centre. Lot 4 – Collection, treatment and processing of biodegradable garden waste (green waste) from Fermanagh Operations Centre. Each Lot Contract is to be for a period of 2 years from award of the Lot Contract. The two categories of bio-waste which comprise the contract material relating to this tender are listed below: EWC 20 01 08, 20 02 01 - Co-mingled brown bin material. This material is generated through the kerbside collection of brown bins consisting of garden waste co-mingled with food waste and household fire ash. All households are provided with a five litre caddy and free compostable bags are provided to the public. EWC 20 02 01 – biodegradable garden waste (green waste) collected through the household recycling centres. This material does not include food waste or compostable bags and will largely consist of garden and lawn cuttings, hedge trimmings and coarse branches, stumps foliage and all other equivalent plant materials. The treatment of the waste is to ensure that the Council complies with the legislative requirement of the EU Waste Framework Directive and the EU Landfill Directive, in respect of household recycling targets and reduction in municipal waste to landfill.