Decision details

To purchase waste collection vehicles and containers.

That the Cabinet Member for Climate Emergency, Clean Air and Streets:

1.  Authorises the Director of Environment to issue Letters of Intent to Veolia ES Southwark Limited (Veolia) authorising essential and urgent expenditure for food waste collection service rollout, to enable orders to be placed for the purchase of:

1.1.  Seven specialist food waste collection vehicles at a total cost of approximately £850k.

1.2.  Containers and food waste container housings with an expected cost of up to approximately £1.3m.

2.  Notes that the proposed principles of service design set out in this report will be the subject of a further Gateway 3 Report when the final terms of the variation have been agreed with Veolia.

3.  Notes that funding from DEFRA provided as part of the new burdens funding of £1.316m, and Waste PFI reserves will be used to fund these purchases as one-off capital purchases to enable the new service to be provided.