Derby City Council has awarded a contract for water treatment maintenance services for Pride Park worth an estimated £2.67 million.
The contract covers the supply of services for the operation and maintenance of the groundwater treatment plant and associated environmental monitoring at Pride Park, Derby.
The service is required to facilitate the maintenance of the Pride Park Water Treatment Plant to meet the monitoring requirements of the Environment Agency Discharge Permit and enable the Water Treatment Unit to control, manage and avoid the discharge of polluted water from the brownfield site of Pride Park into the River Derwent.
The Environmental Protection Act (1990) requires the owner of any land where any contaminated substances are known to be presen tto prevent them from being in, or on or under any other land to which they appear to have escaped.
The successful management of the water treatment plant and waste repositories are an environmental requirement imposed by the Environment Agency.
The contract also protects businesses on Pride Park who all pay a service charge to fund the reclamation infrastructure on Pride Park. In addition to running the water treatment plant the contract also includes the management of monitoring wells around the two waste repositories on Pride Park containing a combined total of 95,000m³ contaminated gas works waste.
The Council has issued a Voluntary Ex Ante Transparency (VEAT) notice setting out its intention to award the contract to the incumbent service provider Alpheus Environmental Ltd without prior publication of a call for competition.
The VEAT notice explains that change of provider at the current time would have a major impact on work activity, costs, and compliance with the EA requirements. In addition, the nature of the service to be provided under the contract is highly specialised - previous procurements had failed to identify suitably competitive
alternative providers.
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