Southern Water has awarded a major AMP8 contract for strategic waste management worth up to an estimated £549 million.
Scope of the wide-ranging contract includes:
- provision of planned and reactive intersite liquid sludge tankering
- planned and reactive intersite raw sludge cake transfer
- onsite tankering services such as wet well cleaning, tank cleaning, tank emptying, jetting, lagoon cleaning, hazardous waste disposal, chemical disposal
- emergency incident response including street works.
Other services covered under the framework include:
- general waste collection and disposal
- planned and reactive grit and screenings collection and disposal
- fly tipping & hazardous waste collection and disposal
- reactive response to and management of pollution events etc.
In addition, the marketing, sale, transport and, disposal of digested sewage sludge cake is also included.
Elements of the services are required 24 hours, 7 days a week.
The following companies have been awarded contracts under a number of Lots:
Lot 1: West Region - Planned & Reactive Tankering & Waste Services (£187 million)
Lanes Group Ltd
Number of tenders received: 5
Lot 2: Central Region - Planned & Reactive Tankering & Waste Services (£145.5 million)
Lanes Group Ltd
Number of tenders received: 5
Lot 3: East Region - Planned & Reactive Tankering & Waste Services (£73 million)
MTS Cleansing Services Ltd
Number of tenders received: 5
Lot 4: Secondary Tanker Suppliers (£54.5 million)
Number of tenders received: 6
Lanes Group Ltd
MTS Cleansing Services Ltd
Cappagh Browne Utilities Ltd
Biomarsh Environmental Ltd
FGS Organics Ltd
Lot 5: Planned Tankering & Waste Services
The contract/lot was not awarded
Lot 6: Reactive Tankering & Waste Services
The contract/lot was not awarded
Lot 7: Specialist Waste Disposal (£13 million)
Asprey St John & Company Ltd trading as Envirovue
Number of tenders received: 3
Lot 8: General Waste (£2 million)
Biffa Waste Services Ltd
Number of tenders received: 2
Lot 9: Planned Inter-site Cake
Countrystyle Recycling Ltd (£12.5 million)
Number of tenders received: 4
Lot 10: Digested Cake Biosolids Offsite (£49 million)
Austin Contract Services Ltd - ACS
Number of tenders received: 2
Lot 11: Grits/Screenings (£12.5 million)
MTS Cleansing Services Ltd
Number of tenders received: 4
The contract was tendered with an initial estimated value of £640 million when it first went out to tender in January 2024.
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