On the shortlist of Cheshire’s residual waste treatment contract worth one billion pounds are four bidders namely United Utilities, Shanks Waste Management, INEOS Chlor and Viridor Waste Management and Waste Recycling Group. The selection was done by Cheshire county council. Initially the number of bidders was thirteen.
The shortlisted firms will now be required to put forward detailed technical and financial bids, giving a rough idea of how they plan to treat household residual waste and reroute it from being sent to landfill sites.
A council spokesperson thanked all the firms for their interest and assured everyone that the process had been carried out fairly.
John Thistlewood, Cheshire county council’s strategic manager for contract procurement explained that the shortlisting was just the first stage in a process that would take months before the final decision was made.
Currently the Cheshire’s residual waste is disposed off in three landfill sites in a service that is carried out by Waste Recycling Group since February 2008. In the long term the council intends to cut down on waste, raise the rates of recycling and cut down on the need for landfill sites.
Cheshire has been granted forty million pounds from the government coffers to finance the development of new waste treatment infrastructure. This will proceed despite plans to divide Cheshire into an East and West unitary authority from the first of April in 2009. In May this year elections will be convened to vote for shadow authorities.
Cheshire’s residual waste treatment contract is likely to be granted in early 2009.
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