Resource Recovery Contract - KEY DECISION
Minutes:
The Board considered a report of the Strategic Director, Communities, on
the progress made with the procurement of the Merseyside and Halton Resource
Recovery Contract.
The report set out the financial
aspects of the contract. In addition, the report sought to re-affirm the
delegation of defined aspects of the Council’s Waste Disposal Authority
Function to the Merseyside Waste Disposal Authority (MWDA) and the Council’s
commitment to enter into a legally binding Inter Authority Agreement (IAA) with
the MWDA.
Reason(s) for
Decision
In order for the
Council to fulfil its statutory obligations as a Waste Disposal Authority, it
must have in place arrangements for the treatment or disposal of residual household
waste. It was important to ensure that any arrangements that were in place
continued to represent the most cost effective and value for money solution
available to the Council.
Entering into an
Inter Authority Agreement with the Merseyside Waste Disposal Authority was
required in order to secure Halton’s inclusion in the
Waste Treatment Services and Facilities procured by the MWDA.
Alternative
Options Considered and Rejected
Halton’s involvement in a joint procurement exercise
with the MWDA for the provision of Waste Treatment services through a
Competitive Dialogue process, sought to ensure that the widest range of market
solutions available had been considered and evaluated. The outcome of the
procurement exercise was to determine the most cost effective waste management
solution available.
The options that
had been considered, and led to a decision to work in partnership with the
MWDA, were detailed in previous reports presented to Executive Board.
Implementation
Date
The Inter Authority
Agreement would come into effect on the date that Financial Close of the
Resource Recovery Contract was achieved.
RESOLVED: That
1) the
Council, acting under Section 9EA of the Local Government Act 2000, the Local
Authorities (Arrangements for the Discharge of Functions) (England) Regulations
2012 and all other enabling powers, delegates to Merseyside Waste Disposal
Authority (MWDA) that part of its waste disposal function as relates to the
procurement and administration of services for the treatment of waste as set
out in the proposed Resource Recovery Contract (RRC) as described in the report
(the Delegation);
2) the
Delegation is contingent upon an Inter Authority Agreement (the IAA) being
entered into between the Council and MWDA, and shall commence on a date to be
specified in the IAA;
3) the
IAA shall document the relationship between the Council and the MWDA consequent
upon Delegation;
4) the
expenditure associated with the Delegation be approved; and
5) the
Strategic Director, Communities, be authorised, in consultation with the
Executive Board Members for Resources and for Environmental Services, the
Operational Directors for Finance and for Legal and Democratic Services, to
take all such actions and to make any decisions necessary to agree the final
terms of the IAA, and to arrange for the IAA to be executed on behalf of the
Council.