The Procuring Waste Management Services Toolkit is aimed at making the procurement process as smooth as possible; minimising the potential of long delays; avoiding common pitfalls; and, importantly, in the present economic climate, reducing expenditure on the procurement and the service contracted.

It aims to support local authority officers and provides information to structure waste management and public-realm service and infrastructure contracts so that they are attractive to the market, commercially viable to the contractor and affordable to the local authority.

The toolkit outlines the activities local authorities need to consider to ensure that the procurement process they undertake to select a supplier (and partner):
• provides value, delivers quality and drives efficiency; and
• creates the foundation for a collaborative approach to the delivery of waste management and public-realm services.

It brings together a huge portfolio of current guidance documents, examples of good practice and a host of other publicly available resources to enable local governments to learn from each other.

We hope you find it useful and that it provides what you need to cover during the procurement process at whatever stage you are involved. 

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Meet the authors of the report

In conjunction with the report we will be present at this year's RWM exhibition on 12-13 September and at the LARAC conference on 10-11 October. If you are attending either of these events we would be happy to speak with you about the report and how it can help your local authority. Email sarahjane.widdowson@ricardo.com for further details.

We will also be delivering a webinar with Suez on 15 November 2.00-3.00PM, so this will be a great opportunity to speak to the authors of the report and pose your questions on waste service procurement. Find out more about the webinar.