Procurement

Integrated Resource and Waste Management Services

• The Council of the Borough of Kirklees

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-052174

Description

This Planned Procurement Notice is being issued to alert the market of a further change in timescales.

It is likely that the procurement process will be published in February 2026 via the YORtender system at https://uk.eu-supply.com/login.asp?B=YORTENDER

Interested suppliers must be registered on this site to access the procurement documents.

This notice is to supplement the UK1: Pipeline notice ref 2025/S 000-025970 and UK 2: Preliminary market engagement notice ref 2025/S 000-061560.

Kirklees Council is seeking an Integrated Resource and Waste Management Services

(IRWMS) contract to operate and maintain all of its existing facilities that are to be handed

back to the authority when the current Waste PFI expires.

The facilities have a good performance track record and are well maintained and include:

• Energy from Waste (EfW) plant with a design-capacity to incinerate approx 136,000 tonnes

per annum of residual waste (operational since January 2001);

• Heat generated from the EfW facility could supply the proposed Huddersfield Heat

Network;

• Material Recovery Facility (MRF) with a capacity to handle approx. 15,500 tonnes per

annum of council recycling material (operational since January 2002);

• a Waste Transfer Station (WTS) in Huddersfield with a capacity to handle 14,000 tonnes

per annum (operational since October 2001);

• The EfW, MRF and WTS are co-located within the same building and a green waste bulking

facility is nearby;

• Another Waste Transfer Station in Dewsbury with a capacity to handle 150,000 tonnes per

annum of residual waste and recycling material (operational since July 2001);

• Four Household Waste Recycling Centre's, two primary sites located adjacent to the waste

transfer stations;

• A small bulking facility for green and inert waste.

The services required are:

• A solution for residual waste treatment and recycling collected from the Council's domestic

and trade rounds that aim to be in accordance with Simpler Recycling principles in 2028.

• Integrated resource and waste management services to operate and maintain the existing

facilities listed above;

• Solutions are also required for: HWRCs; operation and maintenance of the 4 sites including

bulking, processing and haulage, to markets and minimising waste to landfill;

• Meeting performance measures, including: recycling; environmental; and carbon reduction

targets;

• Use of innovative technology for efficiency in: data collection; reporting; supporting

decisions; and transparency.

Waste streams in scope:

• Residual Waste;

• Dry Mixed Recycling;

• HWRC Waste;

• Bulky Items;

• Persistent Organic Pollutants;

• Garden Waste;

• Street Litter;

• Street Sweepings;

• Clinical Waste;

• Hazardous Waste (e.g. batteries, chemicals);

• Dead Animals;

• There is also potential for this to extend to Food Waste.

Volumes of waste:

The annual tonnage of waste requiring treatment based on 2024/25 information are

approximately:

- General waste 121000

- Comingled Recycling 19000

- Bulky waste 7000

- Garden waste 15000

- Other 15000

Contract Duration:

The contract is expected to start in April 2028 for an initial 10 years with the option to extend

for up to a further 5 years with a maximum expiry of March 2043

Notices

UK3: Planned procurement notice

• Notice identifier: 2025/S 000-073691
• Published: 13 November 2025, 4:19pm

UK2: Preliminary market engagement notice

• Notice identifier: 2025/S 000-061560
• Published: 2 October 2025, 10:05am

UK1: Pipeline notice

• Notice identifier: 2025/S 000-025970
• Published: 23 May 2025, 11:16am