It was requested that Ansa Environmental Services Ltd.’s (Ansa) existing contract for the delivery of Waste and Environmental Services is varied to allow for an extension of the contract to 1 April 2031; this will enable Ansa to enter into new procurement arrangements for waste processing and deliver future benefits to the Council.
Now in its third year of trading, Ansa has delivered the contract efficiencies required by the Council whilst at the same time exceeding its performance indicators and delivering a profit from its operations. In order to deliver future benefits however there is a need for Ansa to let new waste and recycling processing contracts that will require a 10-15 year service commitment.
A key aspect of the waste strategy is to reduce disposal to landfill to zero and achieve 100% disposal to waste to energy generation, to achieve this the Council is constructing its central environmental hub. Ansa now need to procure a number of contracts to coincide with the opening of the hub to allow the treatment and disposal of waste ending landfilling and delivering savings associated with it. At present however Ansa’s contract with the Council is due for renewal only 4 years after completion of the hub.
This time limitation on the scope of Ansa’s development would be unduly restrictive since any contracts they subsequently entered into with third parties dealing with various aspects of waste management and treatment would be too short for most companies to agree with.
The current contract is due to expire on 1 April 2021 and a 10 year extension to its existing contract is proposed in order to give to give an unelapsed period of 15 years from 1st April 2016, ending 1st April 2031, with a rolling one year extension each year thereafter, assuming Ansa have achieved the appropriate performance standards.
Decision type: Non-key
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Wards affected: (All Wards);