Street Cleansing. The Council provides a street cleansing service with regard to its statutory duty under the Environmental Protection Xxx 0000. In this, the Authority has a general duty to keep land and roads clear of litter and refuse. This is not prescriptive legislation however and it includes permissive powers for which the Authority has some discretion. As an example, there is no specific statutory requirement to provide litter bins, but in not doing so, the statutory duty of keeping land free of litter etc would be that much more difficult. The following shows the approach of the Authority to general compliance, which will be modified according to emerging issues and changing need.
Street Cleansing. The Clean Neighbourhoods Act and the Environment Protection Act 1990 (EPA), makes ‘duty bodies’ responsible for keeping their land clear of litter and refuse. Duty bodies are the ones responsible for keeping specified public places clear of litter and refuse, these are mainly local authorities. Liverpool City Council fulfils this responsibility through Liverpool Streetscene Services Ltd. The contractor is responsible for compliance with the ‘Defra Code of Practice’ and Section 89 of the EPA to ensure the City is kept clean and free of litter. The Code of Practice encourages local authorities to maintain their land within acceptable cleanliness standards. A significant and avoidable source of detritus is uncollected grass cuttings and weed growth from seeds germinating in moist detritus. The Code of Practice outlines cleanliness standards that are graded as follows; Grade A: No litter or refuse or detritus Grade B: Predominately free of litter and refuse and detritus apart from some small items Grade C: Widespread distribution of litter and/or refuse and/or detritus with minor accumulations Grade D: Heavily affected by litter and/or refuse and/or detritus with significant accumulations The Code recognises that a grade A cannot be maintained at all times. It is expected that a council should keep their land clear of litter, refuse and detritus. The Liverpool City Council would expect to be achieving a grade A-C within the City Centre BID areas between 8:00 and 20:00 with response times to prevent further deterioration. To achieve this the cleansing crews are on site at 04:30am and work through until 20:00 daily. During Christmas period the service continues to be delivered until 23:00. The Code of Practice classifies the different types of land managed by local authorities into four main zones and a council must allocate land into one of these four zones and manage it accordingly. The majority of the City Centre and BID area are included within the following classifications: The Code of Practice requires all authorities responsible for collecting litter to prepare a map of their city identifying areas of high, medium and low intensity of activity, and areas with special circumstances. The City Centre and both BID’s are classed as areas of ‘high intensity of activity’.
Street Cleansing. As part of the new ‘Target Monitoring’ regime, the City Central BID area is to have 5 of the 10 priority monitoring areas monitored through the City Centre Streetscene Manager and the Neighbourhood Response Officers (NRO’s) These can be changed monthly and are initially to be: o St Xxxxx Precinct, Xxxxxxx Square, Liverpool Central, Church Street, Bold Street, Queens Square, Xxxxxxx Street, Cavern Quarter and part of Lord Street. The area has over 600 businesses in total. The Commercial District including Xxxxx Street, Lord Street (part), Derby Square, Castle Street, North Xxxx Street, Tithebam Street (part), Pall Mall (part), Old Hall Street, Water Street (part) and The Strand (part). o The area has over 550 businesses in total. For the five priority areas in each of the BID locations between the hours of 4.30am and 8am there are ten street sweeping teams and eight sweeping vehicles in operation to get the city centre cleansed ready for the days trading. There are twenty-one people cleansing the City Centre, which includes the BID area. Liverpool Streetscene Services operate two mechanical sweeping machines, and a street washing team on a 7 day, 9.15am - 5.45pm pattern within the BID area and supplement this with operatives utilising manual litter pick and xxxxxx cleansing equipment. There are two PCVs which service the litter bins which are emptied daily. A schedule of response times for the city centre, are attached at appendix one for informational purposes.
Street Cleansing. THE OUTPUT REQUIRED DAY TO DAY
Street Cleansing. Mechanical and manual street and amenity cleansing operations; Emptying of litter bins and litter picking operations; Festival and Event cleansing operations.
2.3 Tenderers were also made aware that: it was the Council’s intention to award a two Lot multi-contractor Framework Agreement of a maximum of ten Contractors per Lot; admission to the Framework Agreement will not guarantee some or any work and the Framework Agreement will be used at the Council’s sole discretion;
2.4 Seventeen expressions of interest were noted which resulted in four tenders being received for Lot 1 and two tenders being received for Lot 2 by the tender closing date of 21 June 2013.
2.5 Tenders were evaluated by a panel consisting of three officers from the Council’s Services for Communities Waste & Fleet division overseen by an officer from Commercial Procurement. The evaluation panel used the following published evaluation methodology which placed an emphasis on quality as well as price with the aim of selecting the Tenders which represent the best overall value for money.
2.6 STAGE 1 (Selection Criteria) - The aim of the stage one evaluation was to allow the Council to identify suitably qualified and experienced tenderers in terms of compliance with Regulation 23 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2012, financial stability and compliance with mandatory criteria.
2.7 To successfully pass Stage 1 and be considering at Stage 2 Tenderers were required pass all the specified Selection Criteria.
2.8 STAGE 2 (Award criteria) - The aim of the stage two evaluation was to select the tenders which represent the best overall value for money. This evaluation included an emphasis on quality as well as cost with the applicationof a cost/quality ratio of 70% cost and 30% quality.
2.9 The stage 2 quality analysis was based on the answers provided in response to the weighted Award Criteria questions which were scored using the published scoring matrix.
2.10 Following completion of the stage 2 quality analysis, tenders were subject to a cost analysis which established the estimated costs of tenders by applying the prices quoted to a range of call-off scenarios.
2.11 Scores from the quality analysis were then combined with the scores for the cost analysis using the cost quality ratio to reach a combined score and ranking for each Tender as follows:
2.12 The following call-off methodology was used by the Council in awarding business through the Framework Agreement: if a requirement arise...
Street Cleansing. Employees in Street Cleansing may be required to work across all service areas to meet service requirements as detailed below. Vehicles are not to leave the Xxxxxx Street Operations centre prior to 3:30am. Service Spread of Hours (Monday to Friday) Core Service Hours Rest Breaks General Operator • Litter Bins 3.30 am – 5.00pm 3.30am – 12.00 noon (Mon – Thurs) 20 min (paid) 30 min (unpaid)
Street Cleansing. 6.1. In the areas included within the BID areas Gwynedd Council operates routine street cleaning and servicing of minor litter bins
6.2. Areas within the BID area are included within the current cleansing plans which identify the frequency of cleansing in compliance to codes of practice for rubbish and waste.
6.3. Land managed by the duty body (Gwynedd Council) has been split into four main zones . High intensity of use, Medium intensity of use. Low intensity and areas with special circumstances. Land has been allocated into one of the four zones and managed accordingly. Appendix 1 (below) indicates the types of land within each category. The zones are identified on maps and Appendix 1 provides the information for the area within the BID.
6.4. Hours Operating - 06:00 – 18:00 Deep Clean Service / Power washing
6.5. A deep clean of primary public realm areas within Bangor and Caernarfon is implemented once annually. Additional power washing of public areas and pavements are delivered based on identified need within the proposed BID area.
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