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ELWA wishes to engage with market operators regarding a new contract opportunity for the treatment of garden waste.\nELWA is responsible for the disposal of the Local Authority Collected Waste (LACW) collected by (or on behalf of) the London Boroughs of Barking and Dagenham, Havering, Newham and Redbridge (the Constituent Councils) and to arrange for places to be provided at which persons resident in its area may deposit their household waste and for the disposal of waste so deposited. ELWA is also responsible for the disposal and recycling of commercial waste collected by the Constituent Councils. \nThese services are currently delivered via an Integrated Waste Management Services Contract (IWMS Contract), which was entered into in December 2002 with ELWA Ltd (the IWMS Contractor) and is operated by Biffa Treatment Services (the IWMS Operator). 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The initial term of the contract is from the service commencement date to 31 March 2031, with an option to extend for up to two additional years from expiry of the initial term. The contract, and this procurement, is intended to cover any extension in the period between commencement and service commencement, so the total term of the contract may exceed this estimate." }, "hasOptions": true, "options": { "description": "Details of the primary scope of services required for this contract are included in this notice, the procurement documents and draft contract.\nHowever, the scope of the procurement is also intended to cover ancillary services required to deliver the contract over its full possible term. 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The estimated value also includes any services which may be required during the initial three-year and three-month service delivery period. Therefore, the estimated value is not necessarily the final value of the Contract and ELWA reserves the right to vary this contract value (either higher or lower) in the event the scope of the contract varies throughout its term. 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ELWA wishes to engage with market operators regarding a new contract opportunity for the treatment of garden waste.\nELWA is responsible for the disposal of the Local Authority Collected Waste (LACW) collected by (or on behalf of) the London Boroughs of Barking and Dagenham, Havering, Newham and Redbridge (the Constituent Councils) and to arrange for places to be provided at which persons resident in its area may deposit their household waste and for the disposal of waste so deposited. ELWA is also responsible for the disposal and recycling of commercial waste collected by the Constituent Councils. \nThese services are currently delivered via an Integrated Waste Management Services Contract (IWMS Contract), which was entered into in December 2002 with ELWA Ltd (the IWMS Contractor) and is operated by Biffa Treatment Services (the IWMS Operator). The IWMS Contract includes infrastructure for mechanical biological treatment, waste transfer, and Reuse and Recycling Centres (RRCs) for use by the general public. The IWMS Operator also has a number of sub-contractors for services, including the provision of material recovery facilities for dry mixed recycling, treatment of garden waste, offtake of materials, transfer and RRC facilities. The IWMS Contract expires in December 2027. Further details on ELWA and the services it provides can be found at https://eastlondonwaste.gov.uk/.\nIn 2022 ELWA and the Constituent Councils produced a Joint Strategy for East London's Resources and Waste (Joint Strategy) for the period from 2027 to 2057. Further details on the Joint Strategy can be found at https://eastlondonwaste.gov.uk/jointstrategy/. \nFollowing the ratification of the Joint Strategy, also in 2022, ELWA set up the Procurement and Contract Expiry Programme (PACE Programme) to manage the complex work associated with:\n•\tContract Expiry and Transition: the activities required to manage the expiry and demobilisation of the IWMS Contract;\n•\tFuture Services Delivery: the activities required to ensure that new services arrangements are in place at the expiry of the IWMS Contract so that services continue to be delivered without interruption.\nThe Outline Business Case (OBC), part of the Future Services Delivery component of the PACE Programme, was then produced to determine the preferred service delivery model for the new services at the expiry of the IWMS Contract. \nThe OBC concluded that the preferred approach to procuring the services to replace the IWMS Contract would be via a disaggregated service delivery model with new contracts for the following waste services: Residual Waste Disposal; Waste Reception, Haulage and Reuse and Recycling Centres; Treatment of Garden Waste; Reprocessing of Dry Recycling; and Treatment of Food Waste.\nThe OBC was formally approved in September 2023. Agenda-Item-04 September 2023.pdf (eastlondonwaste.gov.uk).\nTo inform the development of these contracts, ELWA has been carrying out market engagement exercises.\nThe procurement for the Residual Waste Contract has recently been completed, and the procurement of the Reception, Haulage, Reuse and Recycling Centres Contract (RHRRC Contract) is currently underway. \nELWA is now seeking to engage with market operators who may wish to participate in the procurement of the Garden Waste Contract (GWC).\nELWA has also published a Market Operator Briefing Note on the Bravo Portal (https://lbbd.bravosolution.co.uk/), alongside this PMEN, which provides further information regarding this preliminary market engagement exercise, including the process that market operators need to follow to participate in this exercise and the questionnaire that market operators need to complete." }, { "releaseID": "084367-2026", "releaseDate": "2026-09-07T12:45:58+01:00", "releaseTag": [ "tender" ], "value": "ELWA is procuring a contract for the provision of the following services (without limitation):\nThe scope of the Contract includes: \n•\tReceiving and treating delivered Contract Waste, which is garden waste collected from households and commercial customers by the Constituent Councils, and from the Reuse & Recycling Centres;\n•\tContract Waste will be delivered to the Contractor Treatment Site(s) in bulk haulage vehicles by the RHRRC Contractor after the Contract Waste has been delivered by the Constituent Councils to one of the Authority WTSs;\n•\tProvision of capacity to receive and treat and garden waste;\n•\tManagement and offtake of non-conforming waste, products and residues;\n•\tMaximising the recycling and beneficial use of products; and\n•\tReporting and monitoring of environmental compliance.\nPlease see \"Procedure description\" section of this tender notice and the procurement documents for full details of:\n1 - the single-stage, open procedure that ELWA is conducting pursuant to s. 20(2)(a) of the Procurement Act 2023; and\n2 - ELWA's requirements for the Contract.\n(Defined terms used in the above list of services are detailed in the draft contract and procurement documents.)\nPlease see the procurement documents for full details but, in summary, the open procedure will operate as follows:\n1 - Bidders are required to complete and submit Conditions of Participation and Tenders. The purpose of the Conditions of Participation is for ELWA to ensure bidders meet a minimum level of compliance in order for their Tenders to be evaluated.\n2 - ELWA will evaluate Conditions of Participation responses first. If bidders meet the minimum level of compliance in the Conditions of Participation, their Tenders will be evaluated in accordance with the ITT. \n3 - ELWA intends to award the contract to the bidder that submits the most advantageous tender (following internal governance approval).\nAs detailed in the procurement documents, and pursuant to section 31 Procurement Act 2023, ELWA reserves the right to update or confirm aspects of the procurement process at any stage during the procurement; or circulate updated documents in respect of the procurement process prior to the tender submission deadline. If ELWA exercises these rights, it will clearly signpost updates to the documents and ELWA will revise and republish this tender notice.\nThe Authority conducted initial preliminary market engagement in December 2025 (Notice identifier: 2025/S 000-078835). As part of the exercise, the Authority published a Market Operator Briefing Note in which it explained the context of the procurement being a contract for treatment/processing of garden waste collected from households and commercial premises and management of off takers. Two organisations participated in this exercise and provided feedback in respect of:\n-\tThe Authority's procurement strategy;\n-\tAssumptions for evaluation;\n-\tWaste acceptance protocols and vehicles that can/cannot be accepted at facilities;\n-\tProcesses for identifying and recording contamination;\n-\tMarket operators' current compost/end product markets;\n-\tExperiences of performance management frameworks; and\n-\tSocial value.\nIn the preliminary market engagement, it was clearly specified that participation in the preliminary market engagement was/is not a requirement for participation in this procurement. \nThe value is based on ELWA's estimate at the date of publication of the Tender Notice and the draft procurement documents and includes extension of the contract for two years following expiry of the initial three-year and three-month service delivery term. The estimated value also includes any services which may be required during the initial three-year and three-month service delivery period. Therefore, the estimated value is not necessarily the final value of the Contract and ELWA reserves the right to vary this contract value (either higher or lower) in the event the scope of the contract varies throughout its term. 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