Issue - meetings

Background:

This report provided details of a review of progress of the waste collection and disposal contracts currently delivered by Veolia Environmental Services.

The contract delivered waste collection and street cleansing services (residual waste collection, recycling collection from kerbside and bring sites, materials recycling facility provision and end markets for all recycling materials, food and garden waste collection and street cleansing) and disposal of residual waste via a combination of landfill and energy from Waste, ensuring the Council met as a minimum, its landfill diversion targets as set down by Government.

This report was considered at the Procurement Board on 19 December 2012 and its comments were set out in paragraph 7 of the report.

An exempt appendix contained key information in respect of finance and whole-life costings.

Reasons:

This is on the basis of value for money and that Veolia have a track record of delivering high quality services for the residents of Medway with very high satisfaction levels recorded.