Purpose

To consider the procurement
route for the 2026 Waste Contract.

Content

RESOLVED: 
That the Executive
 

1)   
seeks Full Council’s approval to delegate
authority to the Director for Place and Growth, in consultation
with the Executive Member for the Environment and Climate Emergency
and the Council’s Section 151 Officer, to carry out the
procurement process, as required, to deliver best value;

2)   
notes the overall procurement strategy including
seeking Full Council’s approval to issue the procurement to
the open market for the 2026 Waste and Street Cleansing contract.
This will enable the tender to be advertised in August 2024 with
commencement of the new contract in late Spring/early Summer
2026;

3)   
notes the decision to award the contract is separate
to this report and will be presented through a second report early
in 2025 once the procurement process has concluded;

4)   
notes that Appendix 1 and
2 are exempt from disclosure on the grounds that they contain
information relating to the financial or business affairs of a
particular person (including the authority holding that
information) under paragraph 3 of Schedule 12A of the Local
Government Act 1972, and in all the circumstances of the case, the
public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public
interest in disclosing the information.