Decision details

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.

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.