Preferred bidder signed up for £165m waste contract
Leeds business Associated Waste Management has been named as the preferred bidder for a £165m deal with Bradford City Council.
The contract entails treating around 150,000 tonnes per year of residential municipal waste in an initial 12-year contract.
AWM, which was launched in 2000 by John Brooksbank, has managed several local authority contracts and since then invested heavily in technology to move away from a reliance on landfill to recycling and refuse-engineered fuel for thermal treatment.
It recently commissioned a £17.5m materials reclamation facility in Stourton, South Leeds, to manage contracts such as the Bradford one.
The facility was purchased in July 2016 and has undergone major refurbishment, spearheaded by AWM’s Brooksbank. It created a further 40 full time jobs.
The Stourton facility is licensed to process up to 250,000 tonnes per year giving AWM a combined total of 875,000 tonnes of permitted waste and recycling activities annually.
AWM originally passed the prequalification phase of the Bradford procurement in June 2016 and was one of 11 bidders initially, before it was whittled down to two.
Tim Shapcott, business development director commented “Signing of the latest contract will hopefully take place in June 2017, helping to pave the way for AWM to break ground into new engineered fuel markets to compete in the renewables sector both in the UK and overseas.
“AWM has demonstrated through this procurement process its management and front end credentials with support and exclusivity from the power generator SSE plc (Ferrybridge ) with whom AWM have contracted some 25% of the Refuse Derived Fuel supply to the FM2 power station currently being built in readiness for 2019”.
Advisors Craig Pember of Roamine Advisory, Ben Sheppard of Walker Morris and Ruth Hann of PwC helped on the bid.
