Hutt City Council

Silverstream Landfill Operations Contract

Hutt City Council (HCC) is seeking an experienced and motivated partner to operate the Silverstream Landfill, and, as a Separable Portion, the associated Transfer Station and limited Resource Recovery activities with services commencing in February 2023. The transfer station operations / interim resource recovery facility will initially be provided from Silverstream Landfill for several years under this contract. We are also developing proposals to establish a comprehensive Resource Recovery Park catering to both domestic and commercial customers, either at Silverstream or at an alternative site. Council may progress this development with the partner selected through this procurement process or through a new procurement process once Council has determined the preferred approach.

Our community has indicated that environmental sustainability, particularly waste minimisation and carbon reduction, is a top priority, and our Carbon Reduction and Resilience Plan 2021-31, Waste Management and Minimisation Plan 2017 – 2023, and Long Term Plan (LTP) 2021-31 set out what we are doing and intend to do. The LTP priorities of “investing in infrastructure” and “caring for and protecting our environment” are of particular relevance to this opportunity. The improvement of infrastructure to support resource recovery, and the decarbonisation of the services associated with operating the landfill, aligns with Council’s waste reduction and climate change commitments.

Operating as a local authority, it is essential we are optimising public value from our contracts. This is more than simply cost and upholding high health and safety standards. We are interested in a high quality of service for landfill operation and delivering on Council’s priorities, including the minimisation of waste and the reduction of emissions associated with the services to operate the landfill by 50% by 2030.

We want to hear from entities that can support and deliver on HCC’s carbon reduction objectives and are suitably experienced in running landfill and resource recovery operations of a similar size.

Tenderers are required to acknowledge intent to tender within 2 weeks of the date of issue of this RFT. Refer to the tender documents.