Highlights
- All suppliers appointed to this DPS provide comprehensive and innovative waste solutions and proactively assist Contracting Authorities to reduce the quantities of waste sent to landfill and achieve their recycling targets.
- Suppliers provide transparent online reporting systems which identify the final destination for each waste stream showing whether it has been reused, recycled, recovered (waste-energy) or sent to landfill.
- To provide a route to market for public sector organisations which will allow them to meet their current and future requirements in relation to Sustainability and the Zero-Carbon agenda and all other relevant green and environmentally conscience policies and guidance.
- A new Waste Innovation Services Category for individual waste processing services outside of more traditional lift and disposal waste services. These are intended to include provision of on-site treatment equipment and solutions, provision of off-site treatment where insufficient space is available, onsite solutions for Food Waste – Aerobic composting, Alternative Treatment process
- It is not possible at this stage to precisely define all possibilities however potential Categories could include – Recovery of energy from infectious / potentially infectious waste, transformation of hygiene waste into sustainable energy, re-use rather than disposal of items such as IT equipment, furniture and equipment, Reverse vending machines (RVM) for empty cans and plastic in return for a monetary or non-monetary reward, uniform destruction / recovery as Solid Recovered Fuel (SRF), Catering Oil recycling as biofuel.
- All suppliers who have been awarded on to the DPS have already passed the first stage, the Cabinet Office Standard Questionnaire (SQ). This included supplier information, exclusion & selection criteria, economic & financial standing and technical & professional ability.
- This agreement allows for further competition, and the options to complete a capability assessment based on questions or using the finance minimum and maximum tool.
Why this framework matters to you
This DPS provides all public sector organisations with a compliant route to market for awarding contracts for waste treatment, collection and disposal services. This agreement is for further competition, direct awards are not permitted under this agreement.
A DPS offers the most flexibility to meet potential future changes affecting the NHS and wider public sector as new suppliers can apply to join the DPS at any time during its validity period.