Purpose

 
Lancashire County Council is
the Waste Disposal Authority for the administrative county of
Lancashire. The county council operates and manages fifteen
Household Waste Recycling Centres (HWRCs).
 
Waste mattresses can be
deposited at several HWRCs by members of the public. The waste
mattresses deposited are domestic mattresses of single or double
and larger sizes. Mattress recycling providers can
disassemble the mattresses and recycle the components such as foam
padding, metal springs and coconut fibres in different ways,
reducing the requirement to dispose of the waste mattresses in
landfill.
 
At three HWRCs at Burnley,
Farington and Preston, the county council delivers the waste
mattresses directly to a provider facility for
recycling.
 
At four HWRCs at Burscough,
Chorley, Clitheroe and Skelmersdale the waste mattresses are
collected and transported back to the provider facility by the
provider for recycling. It is anticipated that the number of HWRCs
requiring mattress collections is likely to increase during the
next four years.
 
Due to this increasing demand
for waste mattress recycling, formally procured contracts are
required to comply with Public Contracts Regulations
2015.
 
Two separate procurement
exercises are to be undertaken concurrently to secure single
supplier framework agreements for:
· 
the acceptance and recycling of waste mattresses
that are delivered into the provider by the county council and/or
it's transport contractor from the HWRCs, estimated value
£380,000 over a four year term.
· 
the collection, transportation, acceptance and
recycling of waste mattresses that are collected by the provider
from the HWRCs, estimated value £440,000 over a four year
term.
 
The framework agreements will
be for an initial period of two years, with the option to extend
for any number of defined periods up to a further two years, to
commence on or around 01 April 2025.
 

Content

Steve Scott, Head of Service
Waste Management, on behalf of Jonathan Edwards,
Director of Environment and Planning
took a decision to approve commencement of two
procurements to establish:

· 
a single supplier framework agreement for the
provision of acceptance and recycling of waste mattresses;
and

· 
a single supplier framework agreement for the
collection, transportation, acceptance and recycling of waste
mattresses.
 
The framework agreements will
commence on or around 1 April 2025 and have an initial term of two
years, with the option to extend for any number of defined periods
up to a further two years. The procedure to be utilised for both
procurement exercises will be an Above Threshold Open tender
process, in compliance with PCR15.