Resource Recovery Services for City Properties

The Council of the City of Sydney ("the City") invites tenders for the provision of resource recovery services for City properties for an initial period of three (3) years, with two (2) optional extensions of two (2) years each, exercisable at Council s discretion, in accordance with this Request for Tender. There are 75 property sites within the City's property portfolio to be serviced under this contract. The number of properties may fluctuate throughout the contract period through business-as-usual property portfolio changes The portfolio is comprised of commercial tenanted buildings and City staffed community facilities, including aquatic centres, sporting facilities, libraries, childcare centres, town halls and operational depots. The Service Provider must supply bins and collect, sort, process, recycle, recover and/or market all Collected Material supplied by the City, maximising resource recovery and minimising disposal of waste to landfill. The source of Collected Material is waste from City owned and managed properties. Tenderers must submit tenders in the manner required by the documents associated with this Tender. The City is committed to creating opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander owned businesses. The City encourages First Nations People businesses, Local SME, Start-ups as well as social enterprises (including Cooperatives) to work with us and respond to this opportunity. Please note that the City of Sydney is required to comply with the tendering and procurement provisions of the Local Government Act 1993 (NSW) and the Local Government (General) Regulation 2021. To ensure a fair, transparent and equitable procurement process, the City is generally unable to engage in post-closing negotiations or provide information to individual tenderers that is not made available to all participants. Accordingly, if you have any questions, require clarification of any aspect of the procurement documents, or identify any ambiguities, inconsistencies or concerns, please submit your queries through the etender Forum before the Questions Closing Date. Responses will be managed through the procurement process and, where appropriate, shared with all tenderers to ensure equal access to information. Where a tenderer wishes to propose amendments to the draft contract or identify contractual departures, these should not be submitted through the etender Forum. Instead, proposed contract amendments should be provided directly to the procurement representatives by email within the timeframe specified in the in Part A of the RFT documentation. Tenderers should not rely on assumptions or verbal discussions and are encouraged to seek clarification during the designated question period, as opportunities to address such matters after tender close are be limited.